between men

I can still understand what you're saying. "

"Okay, I apologize," James said with a smile, and he threw something out of his pocket into my arms. It was the golden cross.

"It fell in the bathroom." He touched his head and said to me, with an unnatural expression.

"Oh." I put it in my pocket, "It's a good thing you didn't wash it down, this is the second cross I received, and it's still golden."

He nodded and laughed a few times, and said nothing. I felt that the atmosphere was a little weird at this moment, so I had no choice but to stop talking.

After more than ten minutes——

"Here we are." Danny yelled, James quickly opened the door and walked down, and then he said to me by the window: "Stay in the car and don't move, we will be back soon."

Danny touched his head: "Didn't you say you won't go up?"

"I'm thinking about it now," James said, turning his head, and then he looked at me again, and I nodded my head.

"You said you wouldn't go up." Danny was still trying to resist, but James pulled him away with one hand. I went to the window and saw that the car was parked next to a very ordinary road hotel .

This hotel is a bit dilapidated. The white paint on the outer walls of the second floor is almost gone. There is a canopy in front of it. There are four benches and a table under the canopy. It looks like it is used for playing mahjong. Daniel, how can an Italian live here?This is far away from the city, and the place is still remote. Could it be that he was thrown away by the black tour guide?

I laughed when I thought about it, the bottle of potion was finally finished at this time, I pulled out the needle, opened the car door and walked out.

The air outside is rare and there is no sun. It probably just rained a little. I leaned on the car with my eyes closed and breathed in the air. Although I don’t know why, I always feel that the car is a bit stuffy.

At this moment, the cross in my pocket suddenly fell to the ground.

This damn bag... I thought so, then bent down to pick it up, and just as my hand touched the cross, the other hand was faster than me, and picked up the cross first .

"Golden dusk." The man said with a smile, I raised my head to look, and then immediately froze...

He was wearing a black robe, holding a thick book in his left hand, and a large cross hanging on his chest—he was a believer.

"Can I receive your unscrupulous gaze with appreciation?" He asked with a smile.

"Ah... this... no... oh no, I..."

I know him……

Before my father died, his church was the only church I ever went to. My father took my first golden cross from him. He gave me a Bible and made me believe in At the top of the church, there are two eyes.

And after my dad died, he was the one who kicked me out of town, but I don't hate him because everyone said the same thing, they all said this skinny boy was a devil and he shouldn't be here , but he survived, this is the curse, the boy is a demon...

I believe he doesn't recognize me now, otherwise he wouldn't talk to me, but even so, I still have an inexplicable urge to see him, and I want to rush up and beat him up, although this is unlikely.

"Friends who have lost their way, God will give you strength."

He smiled and said, I tried my best to keep my eyes away from him, I have forgotten his name, but I remember his smile, everyone in the town said that this man's smile was brighter than the sun.

"Can I... take that back?"

I pointed to the cross, he nodded with a smile, and put the cross in my hand.

"Who is guiding you?" he asked slowly.

"No one," I said, "I'm not a Christian, and someone gave me this cross, because gold ones are rare, so... it was spent by someone on the side of the road - spent - like 500 or so It was bought for me for [-] yuan, so...I'm not a believer...Well...Well, if it's okay, I'll go first, I want to go to the bathroom..."

After I finished speaking, I bowed to him, and then walked quickly towards the hotel. He didn't move, but he stopped me after I walked a few steps.

"The great Heavenly Father gives you the power of light, and you will see the existence of heaven outside your body."

I keep going.

"God is merciful to all, regardless of everything in the world."

……

"God forgives all, right or wrong."

……

"But God won't tolerate deceit, that's a sin!"

"I didn't lie to you!" I turned around and roared, speaking very fast: "I didn't lie to you! I am not a Christian, I may have been in a church, but I just went in! I didn't do anything because I knew he Don't accept me, this is the East!"

He still kept that smiling expression, as if I hadn't said anything just now.

"God made everything," he began, "He accepts everything, including you, including me, and He is with us."

I shrugged. "Obviously, that's you. I don't mean to be disrespectful, but you guys are kind of annoying."

"That's the good thing," he laughed, "the right friend can tell you the right choice, and you can always find it in everyone's life, because it's everywhere, like—"

"Death," I interrupted, "death—yes, death, like death..."

He shook his head with a smile and didn't say anything else. Just when I thought he had nothing to say, he suddenly paused, then raised his head and looked at me.

"……do we know each other?"

He looked into my eyes and asked, seeming to remember something.I hurriedly turned around, only to realize how stupid my actions were just now.

He chased after him.

"Do we know each other?" he repeated.

"No," I said as I walked with my back turned to him, "but we all know the cross... I really need to go to the bathroom, bye."

As soon as I said that, I opened the door of the hotel, and an old man sat behind the cabinet and looked up at me.

"I'm waiting," I said to him, "just the two who just went in. They're here to get their luggage."

The old man immediately lowered his head and stopped looking at me. I breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked towards the stairs. James came down from the stairs with a big bag of luggage on his back. He was a little surprised when he saw me: "Didn't I tell you not to come down?" ?”

I shrugged: "It's a bit stuffy in the car, let me see what I can do for help."

"That's all, but you can give the money to the boss, a total of 300 yuan." He walked down after speaking, then stopped beside me and pouted, "The wallet is in the right trouser pocket."

I snorted and put my hand into his pocket. He was wearing a pair of jeans, which were so tight that he finally took out the wallet. There were already several red marks on his hand.

"I will wear looser pants next time." He stared at my hand and said, I gave him a blank look, and after pulling out 300 yuan from it, I threw the wallet on the luggage, and he bit it.

"Where's Danny?" I said as I sent the money to the boss, and James put the luggage on the side table.

"Arranging small things," he said, "like hiding a bag of sanitary napkins."

"If he really hid a bag of Hushubao, you can try to lock him in a small dark room for a month and see if he will have a big aunt."

He laughed a few times, and the boss sent me a pen after receiving the money and asked me to sign my name on a ticket.

"Is he still coming down?" I said while signing.I haven't written for a long time, and now I see that my handwriting is like an earthworm, but fortunately, the old boss didn't laugh at me.

James didn't say anything. After signing, the boss gave me a ticket and then went back to his chair and squinted his eyes. I walked back and handed the ticket to James. Danny finally appeared at the stairs.

"Sorry," he said, jumping down the stairs.I noticed that he still had a travel bag on his back, so I was a little strange, is this his home?

James picked up the luggage on the table and walked out. Danny stuck out his tongue: "Is he angry?"

"Probably just a sudden stomach upset."

When I said it in a matter-of-fact manner, he froze for a moment, as if he didn't understand that I was joking.

"Then did he take any medicine?"

The elderly hotel owner behind the counter coughed a few times. I turned my head and saw that he was smiling with his mouth covered, and he gave me a hard stare after seeing me.

"Let's go," I said, tugging on Danny's clothes, and he nodded, and then we walked out, and the boss shouted from behind: "Close the door after you get out, thank you."

The sun was very hot at this time, but I still saw the priest still standing on the side of the road, as if waiting for me to go out, I hid behind Danny and walked forward, it was a bit silly, but I didn't want to see he.

"Hey, you guys!" James yelled, leaning against the side of the car, where he had already packed his luggage.

"Have you been this close in just one day?"

We walked to him, and the priest came over at this moment. I opened the car door quickly, but it was still a step too late.

"I'm sure you existed in my memory, so tell me your name, thank you."

James glanced at the priest, then at me, and immediately understood why I was in that hotel.

"When did the church get reduced to trying to pull people on country lanes?" James asked with a smile, and the priest bent over him and said, "We have the duty to guide people everywhere