forget the soul

Li Xiao didn't talk much at all, and Yu Rong and him couldn't talk much either, the two remained silent all the way.Walking into the woods, most of the skylight was covered in an instant, and the surroundings were dark green. Yu Rong picked up a branch from the grass and weighed it in his hand. .

The road in the woods is much more difficult than the road outside. There are fallen leaves everywhere on the ground, and the leaves are full of wet water vapor. If you don’t pay attention, they will slip. Coupled with the interference of stones and roots growing out of the ground, the terrain The ups and downs are very challenging.Yu Rong found his walking stick, took a rest, and looked back at Li Xiao. He had changed his shoulder to carry a luggage bag, and the leather shoes on his feet were already stained with mud.

"Let's go back to brother Fang to put our luggage first." Yu Rong said.

"No, let's go." Li Xiao said.Yu Rong handed him his cane: "Otherwise you can use it, I'll find another one."

"It's okay." Li Xiao smiled, Yu Rong was holding the cane, the surface of the cane was covered with a layer of moss, after holding it for a long time, the palms of his hands were wet.Yu Rong lost it and looked for a new one among the bushes on the road.He said: "Last time I also searched for a long time, but I couldn't find the right one."

His eyes passed through a few sparse vines, squeezed through a few short wild berry bushes, walked carefully, looked up and down, and said, "Lin Wangyue can find the right one in one click."

He took a peek at Li Xiao, but Li Xiao was indifferent, holding the shoulder strap of the luggage bag with one hand, and the other hand hanging by his side, walking obliquely in front of him unhurriedly.

"Really..." He responded softly.

The woods are lively, birds chirping, insects chirping, and rustling sounds alternately, but because there are no other people, no other voices can be heard, and it seems so quiet and peaceful.

Yu Rong's heart settled down, and he said, "He asked me to tell you something, but he couldn't find the right time to say it to you."

"When he was in Macau, maybe he made up his mind at that time... the matter of suicide..." Yu Rong touched the bridge of his nose, picked up a thin tree branch, and swept a piece of fern grass, "he said , I hope you forget him, completely, completely forget, and then... think of him again."

Li Xiao looked forward, and replied lightly: "Thank you."

Yu Rong pursed his lips, glanced at Li Xiao, and asked, "Will there be anyone else? Or is there already someone else?"

Li Xiao looked back at him, Yu Rong hurriedly lowered his head, and hurriedly said: "I have no other intentions, you know that he has made up his mind to go, of course you have this freedom, who doesn't need other people's company? I understand." He Shrugging his shoulders, he picked up a black lacquered branch from a pile of fallen leaves, stretched his sleeves and wiped it. The fragile bark on the branch peeled off, revealing some snow-white insides.

Li Xiao said: "One time, he asked me, how to make a suit all over the place, it's really boring, can you make him something else. I made something else. He asked me again, why is it a feather cloak , I said, you can fly to very high and far places.”

"It's ok."

"You can go wherever you want, it doesn't matter where you go, if you don't come back, don't come back, but..."

Yu Rong quickened his pace, walked up to Li Xiao, looked at him eagerly, and waited: "But?"

"But you have a place to go back to, a place to stay."

Li Xiao looked at Yu Rong and smiled: "He said that he is a bird without wings, and he fell down after flying. He can't go anywhere at all, and he can't go back anywhere."

Yu Rong frowned, then smiled, softly, faintly, and finally sighed: "He has seen too much of Wang Jiawei!"

They both laughed, and there was a sound of tearing. Li Xiao's coat was caught by a branch. Yu Rong broke the branch for him. Li Xiao took off his coat, held it in his hand, and continued walking.

Maybe it was evening, the sunlight became thinner, and the shades were different. The bright and dark greenery spread far away, the light color rose to a high place, and the dark color sank to a low place. Yu Rong felt that they were walking together. In a huge green net, with the verdant green sky above their heads, they are stepping on a black path that leads to nowhere. They can't see the direction at all, and they can't see the traces left by the predecessors. They can only kick their own feet. Step over and go forward step by step.

Later, fireflies came out.Light, fluffy fluorescent clusters are dotted among the thick black tree trunks.

Yu Rong suddenly had a sour nose.He reached out to touch a cluster of fireflies, and these glowing bugs immediately scattered, turning into dots of light, and quickly disappeared.It was dark around them.

"It's really like a dream." He didn't dare to be presumptuous anymore, and didn't dare to disturb more creatures, he spoke softly, "My mother, Lin Wangyue... Brother Fang, I am familiar with, I am not familiar with, People who only met once, everyone has so many secrets, it seems unreal, you know?" He sighed, "I'm sorry, I'm a little incoherent."

Li Xiao asked him: "Did you guys walk so late that day?"

Yu Rong nodded and said, "It's strange, these fireflies seem to have spirituality, and they will show us the way. We followed them and came to a cave."

He asked Li Xiao, "Do you believe in souls?"

Li Xiao said: "I believe that when people come to this world, opportunities are rare and they should live seriously."

Yu Rong said in a deep voice, "Too serious will be too painful."

Li Xiao said: "Then you have to seriously act like him."

Yu Rong was defeated: "It's true, who doesn't have pain for one day, numbness for three days, indulgence for two days, and muddled one day, no wonder there must be seven days in a week, otherwise the cycle cannot be cycled." He continued, "He said his funeral would be at least a Versace one."

Li Xiao was helpless: "He still wants to set off a salute at the fashion show, and put his own ashes in the salute." He smiled wryly, "Did you see that he gave us a chance to collect his ashes?"

Yu Rong shook his head again and sighed again.

Li Xiao patted him, squinted his eyes and pointed to a round spot that was deeper and darker than the surrounding darkness, and asked, "Is that the cave you mentioned?"

Yu Rong trotted over and saw that it was indeed a cave. He collected some firewood, lit it, and took a closer look to confirm: "This is the cave."

He held up a burning firewood, stroked the wet and cold stone wall, and kept nodding.Li Xiao also held a lit firewood against the base of the wall, exploring the cave, and after a walk, he stopped in front of a stone wall.Yu Rong looked over and stretched his arms to take a look. There were many small holes on the stone wall, and there were many raised protrusions like small hooks.Li Xiao put down his luggage and hung his coat on one of the small hooks.

Yu Rong's heart skipped a beat.Li Xiao's coat was gray, and there was a cut on the right back shoulder of the coat.

Yu Rong wanted to say something, but he was a little confused, his ears were buzzing, he walked back to the fire with his hands on the wall, added some firewood, and the fire burned even hotter, and the whole cave was glowing red. Sitting with his knees next to his backpack and camera bag, he said nothing.

Li Xiao never came over.Yu Rong couldn't help asking: "What are you doing?"

Li Xiao didn't answer, Yu Rong turned to look for him, he saw that he was still standing in front of the stone wall, the whole person was very close to the stone wall, digging with all his attention.

He dug out a note.

Yu Rong wiped his face with his hands, he was sweating, sweating, cold sweat, his back was soaked, he spoke, his voice trembling.He asked: "The note...what was written on the note? Who...who left it?"

He muttered: "It's too weird, is it dejavu? It's too weird, or..."

He closed his eyes, clasped his hands together and bowed to the fire. When he opened his eyes again, Li Xiao came over and sat opposite him.He unfolded the note under the firelight and looked at it silently.

Yu Rong cleared his throat, swallowed his saliva, and said to Li Xiao: "You know what? When we came here before, we saw a gray coat hanging in the cave," he pointed at Li Xiao's gray coat , "It's... still torn, and the torn place is exactly the same as the torn place of your clothes."

He remembered a detail that made him shiver.

"Lin Wangyue, he just smells this dress."

Yu Rong moved the two bags beside him closer, and continued tremblingly: "What's even weirder is that I was very tired that day, so I lay down. When I was half asleep and half awake, I saw Lin Wangyue writing something. I thought I was dreaming, Li Xiao... Could this really be written by Lin Wangyue?"

"Did he write to you?"

"Does he know that you will come? How is it possible... how is this possible, is this impossible? The coat we saw is not really your coat, is it?"

Speaking of this, Yu Rong took out the camera, but the power could not be turned on, and his mobile phone was dead. Yu Rong patted his chest and shivered uncontrollably.

Li Xiao raised his eyes to look at him and said, "Maybe we are really dreaming."

His tone was neither hot nor cold, neither salty nor light.

Yu Rong calmed down a bit: "Then someone really dreamed of going together? The Matrix, we all fell asleep in a virtual environment? Is this forest a bug in the program?" He looked around , Laughing to himself, "Forget it, even if it is a ghost, if there is a ghost..." He clicked his tongue and opened it to the outside of the cave.

He tried to find a pale, sad face in the black forest.He couldn't find it.

His smile widened: "Just let me see this ghost again!!"

Li Xiao smiled, Yu Rong looked at him, and glanced at the note in his hand, because of the angle, he could only see a few horizontal lines and a few sides: next to the single person, next to the wooden characters, half a portrait The same word as "I".

"Do you want to see it?" Li Xiao looked at Yu Rong and asked him.

"Ah? Forget it. If you found it, I'll..." Yu Rong waved his hand, turned his head away, patted his trouser legs, touched his shoelaces, and stopped.

He observed Li Xiao from the corner of his eye.

Li Xiao put the note into the fire.Several sparks flew, and the note was burned instantly.

Yu Rong untied his shoelaces and re-tied them tightly. He said softly, "When I came here last time, during the daytime, I went to summon my mother's soul. The sorceress said that I would see my mother the next day. The next day I got up in this cave, and I saw a cow, but my mother was a rabbit."

He asked himself, "Am I seeing myself?"

He questioned: "Impossible, that bullshit psychological test is so accurate?"

Li Xiao didn't answer, Yu Rong lay down, pillowed on his camera bag, not saying a word.He fell asleep quickly.

He is dreaming.He dreamed of Suzhou, he dreamed that he was walking on Lindun Road, it should be autumn, because his nose was filled with the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus, he smelled the scent of flowers and went to Lu Gongjian to buy half a sauced duck, and he went across the road Changfa queued up at the door to buy meat mooncakes.Some unknown aunts and uncles lined up in front of and behind him, and a good old woman wanted to jump in line.He bought meat mooncakes, freshly baked, and he ordered a whole box of eight. He stood by the road with the box in his hand and took a big bite of one. The meat juice scalded his tortoise shell (palate) sour.

His dream was real.

After waking up, Li Xiao was already standing outside the cave. When Yu Rong saw him, he quickly greeted him and asked him, "Li Xiao! Have you seen the cow? Has my cow come? It's a buffalo. Did you see it?"

Li Xiao didn't ring, but the sound of copper bells colliding came from deep in the thick fog.

Yu Rong got up, went out, walked over, and searched around. He only found a dozen small bowl-like hoof marks on the ground, which looked like cows and horses.He raised his head and asked Li Xiao, "Is your horse coming?"

Holding the coat in one hand, Li Xiao laughed and shook his head.

Like the previous trip, Yu Rong found footprints of rabbits and deer on the top and under the thick fallen leaves.

Li Xiao asked, "How do we go out?"

Yu Rong said: "Go back the same way." He clapped his hands and stood up, "I will go out, just keep walking."

He looked at Li Xiao, Li Xiao was putting on his coat, and after putting it on, he turned and walked towards the cave.Looking at his back, Yu Rong opened his mouth wide, and a willow branch grew out of the place where the coat on Li Xiao's body was torn by a branch.The wicker is covered with new leaves.

"Can you embroider?" Yu Rong asked loudly.

Li Xiao shook his head: "Of course not."

He went on to say, "Only Lin Wangyue can."

Yu Rong looked into the fog.He couldn't tell what was real and what was fake, and he was completely confused. Is his life a program made by a machine, is it a movie full of mysticism?Or is life really just a secret embracing another secret, which cannot be unraveled or completely solved, and people walk forever in a maze from which they cannot get out, and the living and the dead cannot meet even if they meet?

Li Xiao came out with his luggage bag, and Yu Rong also went to pack his backpack. They didn't speak, they were as silent as when they walked into the forest.The birds and insects were stirring again, the wind was blowing the canopy, people were trampling on the stumps, and the fog was floating around them.Sometimes Yu Rong could see Li Xiao clearly, sometimes he could only see half of him, and sometimes he couldn't even see him.They are walking on their own paths, neither far nor near.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Li Xiao suddenly stopped when he was about to walk out of the woods. He found a big tree and fixed his eyes on it.Yu Rong opened his mouth, but didn't speak. He also looked at the tree.He didn't close his eyes, he watched it calmly.

After a break, the two stepped forward one after another and walked away.

The fog thickened and they came out of the woods.

forget the soul