Alley

Xiang Yu's precise and rigorous life was cut off.

He met a boy in that dark and cramped alley.When meeting for the first time, he noticed his thin figure and pale face;

The second time we met, the boy struggled on tiptoe to hang the freshly washed sheets on the clothesline on the street; the third time we met, the boy was lame, and his thin white and thin arms could not move the gas stove.

So Xiang Yu reached out.

He is a pure egoist, he likes rules and plans without flaws.Become a member of canned sardines in the subway, follow the flow of people, and be a conscientious and hard-working screw of the big social machine.

The change of the schedule once made him unaccustomed and confused.

The confusion was quickly resolved, and he fell in love with the boy.

He wasn't too surprised by his own sexuality, nor was he surprised by love at first sight.

Xiang Yu has always been very smart, and he can get above-average grades without any effort since he was a child; he is not willing to work hard, and above-average is enough;

A girl confessed to him in college. He didn't like it, but he didn't seem to hate it, so he accepted it; when he got to the society, he found a suitable job and went with it. The girl felt that he was unmotivated and proposed to break up. He thought the girl was right. , he has always been like this in his life, everything is easy and everything is boring.

True love is fun though.

To fall in love is to fall in love, without reason or warning, he fell in love with every expression of the young man, he liked the young man's beautiful voice, his bright eyes, and the little mole under the corner of his right eye.

Xiang Yu is not stingy with his love.In the morning, he would get up early to help the young man light the gas stove. Every morning, the young man would boil a pot of hot water and cook breakfast, sometimes porridge and sometimes small wontons.

Sometimes the boy would wash the sheets early in the morning, and the sheets smelled of excrement. The boy often washed them with cold water and a washboard regardless. Xiang Yu felt sorry for his red fingers, and would help boil water and dry the sheets until The rack was too high above the clothesline rope.

Life is not easy for Shu Yi.

The hot water is for the adoptive mother to wash in the morning, and there is no comfort for breakfast, and the bed sheets are stained by his adoptive father who is paralyzed in bed.

Xiang Yu stroked the boy's face, and lightly tapped the cinnabar mole at the corner of his eye. The boy's skin was pale and cold. He raised his head obediently, and stared unscrupulously into the depths of Xiang Yu's pupils.

"When you become an adult, I will take you away."

The young man smiled, and he raised his hand to cover Xiang Yu's. His hand was also cold, but his skin was as smooth and tender as fat. His eyes had long since lost the vigilance and alienation he had when he was approached for the first time. The young man believed in Xiang Yu wholeheartedly. , even if he is just passing by in this alley.

Xiang Yu was the only one who reached out to him.

That morning he saw the plastic bag on the doorknob, and looked inside suspiciously. It contained Dieda ointment and some bottles and jars written in English that he had never seen before.

For some reason, he was sure in almost a second that it was the man who left behind in the morning.

Shu Yi hates pity and flattery from others, but gradually allows Xiang Yu to appear frequently and lends a helping hand to him.

One day, at dusk, Xiang Yu held a bouquet of roses and said to Shu Yi, "Yi Yi, I like you, when you grow up, let me take care of you, okay?"

Shu Yi's back, which had been supporting him stubbornly for seven years, suddenly relaxed. He didn't need help, pity or care.

But he thought, he needs Xiang Yu's love.

Xiang Yu's life is connected by long and short plans.

Studying, falling in love, graduating, breaking up, working, going on a blind date, getting married, raising kids.

He is used to dividing his time, building a todolist, and completing the to-do items on the list one by one.

He is used to control, and enjoys the optimal solution obtained by control and the ease of excellence from childhood to adulthood.

He always gets things done perfectly and on time.His colleagues praise him and his boss approves of him.His life was like an extremely accurate clock, until one day, his parents told him that there was an important and urgent thing in the to-do list that he needed to complete-blind date, and pass on the family line.

Then he received a call from a headhunter in a big city, and when the headhunter learned that he was not in the city, he hung up the phone apologetically, but he called back by a mysterious accident.

He didn't inform anyone, and only told his closest parents that he needed to go on a business trip for a while, then he packed his bags and went to a strange city by himself.

He likes this city, this city is suitable for him, the helpless people can live safely by social rules.

He met Shu Yi.

He fell in love with this city more and more. In his eyes, the indifferent steel and concrete seemed to bloom. The sun that was about to set at dusk was no longer sluggish but ambiguous. He was dry to the point of cracking inside.

He made his first confession in this dirty alley that he once hated. For the first time, he felt that his blood was hot. He had desire and love, and he was also nervous and anxious.

For the first time, Xiang Yu felt that he was alive.

The boy's teeth were white, and he only showed a little bit when he smiled.

"Okay," he said.

Xiang Yu first noticed the strange feeling at the end of December.

This strange feeling is very slight but cannot be ignored. That morning he helped Shu Yi light the coal stove, and stuffed a few warm babies into Shu Yi’s pockets—he couldn’t buy new clothes for him, Shu Yi’s adoptive parents will find out.

Just be patient, wait until Shu Yi, he thought countless times in his heart.

Saying goodbye to Shu Yi, he left the alley in a hurry, and was about to be late for work.It was at that time that an awkward sense of strangeness arose.

When he arrived at the company, he finished the urgent work first, glanced at the computer of his colleague at the next station, and suddenly understood why he caught the uneasiness in the rush in the morning.

The colleague next door secretly opened the Taobao page and was buying new year's goods in advance.

The colleague noticed Xiang Yu's gaze and complained casually, "Oh, Chinese New Year is very early this year. The Spring Festival will be celebrated at the end of January, and the express delivery will be suspended. Have you bought the New Year's goods, Brother Xiang?"

"No."

"Is next year the Year of the Rat?"

"Yeah, it's another round, alas... year after year."

Xiang Yu nodded, and then processed the documents in his hand.

Five minutes later, his heart shook for no reason, and he suddenly remembered that in the alleys in the morning, the background of the blessing characters pasted on the back doors of every house was obviously a dragon with teeth and claws.