Rust II

This kiss carried the unique bitterness of drunkenness, but also contained unprecedented nostalgia and enthusiasm.

Xu Xinshou subconsciously hugged the opponent's back, surprised in his heart, but still responded quickly.

While the lips and tongues are intertwined, the intertwined body temperature also gradually rises with this sudden kiss, pressing and comforting each other in the cold air.

Lin An's sudden outburst of emotions was soothed by the hot temperature for a moment. He panted slightly, and leaned his forehead against the opponent's shoulder with his eyes closed, arching his back like some kind of silent begging .

"...Brother Xu." After a long time, he heard him speak hoarsely again.

Xu Xin responded in a low voice.

Lin Jing was silent for a moment, did not speak again, but just clenched the corner of the other party's clothes a little more.

Xu Xin noticed that his restlessness and sadness were different from those of drunkenness. The hand that was originally around his waist slowly lifted up, hesitated for a moment, and gently landed on the top of the man's head, and asked the doubt in his heart: "What's wrong?"

Lin An felt the temperature of the opponent's palm, but did not answer.

Xu Xin waited for a while, then called him again: "Lin An?"

The head on the shoulder shook, and after a few seconds, he raised his head and looked at him.

Xu Xin's gaze was as deep and gentle as ever, and even under the warm yellow light, it was even more intoxicating than before. Lin An stared blankly, but felt that he had never been so awake and entrenched for a moment like now. In his heart all night, he dared not face the problem of unrest, and finally he was able to hide it in this pair of eyes, and the answer to this question was always clear, but he never wanted to. To listen, to think, to watch, and even up to this moment, still wishful thinking to use alcohol to extinguish the emerging reason, like a clown struggling on the edge of a dream, letting go of the greed and selfish desire deep in his heart.

Xu felt that the atmosphere was too stagnant and dignified, and a vibration of an incoming call suddenly came from Xu Xin's coat pocket. Lin An followed the other party's movements and landed on the phone that was taken out, and saw the word "Xu Yuan" It is constantly jumping and flashing on the screen.

Xu Xin glanced at him, picked up the phone, briefly said a few words to the other side, then hung up, and looked at him hesitantly.

Lin An didn't know when, he had already let go of the hand that had firmly grasped him before, and silently took a step back.

"Xiao Wang is resting today, so..." Xu Xin explained to him in a low voice.

Lin An lowered his gaze, and no longer had the courage to look at him before. Hearing this, he nodded in panic, blocking the other party's unfinished words in the middle.

Seeing this, Xu Xin smiled slightly, and suddenly stepped forward and pressed the man into his arms. Two seconds later, he tightened his arms comfortingly, then released them, and reconfirmed to him softly: "Then I go first?"

Lin An nodded.

Xu Xin stared at his slightly flushed face for a few seconds, thought for a while, and added: "Tomorrow morning, the company has something to fly to City B. If everything goes well, I'll be back in the afternoon." After a pause, he asked softly : "wait for me at night?"

Lin An's avoiding eyes were startled, and he nodded again.

Xu Xin smiled, turned around, changed his shoes, took the key from the cabinet, closed the door for him and went downstairs.

The sky outside was a little grayer than when he sent people upstairs, and the clouds of different shades were like flowing ink stains, smudged in the starless night sky.

Xu Yuan almost fell asleep waiting in the car. When she heard the sound of the car door opening, she immediately sat up, silently raised three fingers at Xu Xin, and complained, "30 minutes."

Xu Xin glanced at her, fastened his seat belt and started the car, backed out of the parking space and drove towards the gate of the community without saying a word.

Xu Yuan continued to mutter to the side: "If I had known, I might as well have taken a taxi home by myself, maybe I'd be home by now."

Xu Xin glanced at her and said lightly, "I've never seen you so active after school."

Xu Yuan felt guilty, and immediately didn't dare to answer. She smiled awkwardly and quickly changed the subject, "Uncle, why have you been up there for so long?"

Xu Xin was silent for a while, remembering the rare active intimacy of the person in the living room a few minutes ago, staring at the front for a moment, and said lightly: "It's nothing." After a pause, he said: "You Lin Teacher...well, he's drunk."

Xu Yuan rolled her eyes secretly, this is not nonsense!She is not blind...

Xu Xin seemed to avoid the topic of Lin An very much. After explaining everything, he changed the subject directly, and confessed to Xu Yuan, who was not giving up, with a serious face: "Something happened at Xiaowang's family recently, and I have invited you for a long time. It’s a month’s vacation, so the next two weeks will be changed to your Uncle Ding’s pick-up, if he doesn’t have time, you can find a way to go back, I see that there is a bus on Qingyun Road that goes directly to Zhuyuan.”

Xu Yuan frowned when she heard the words, and keenly caught the other party's implication: "Why? Are you going to disappear again?"

Xu Xin didn't answer her question directly, but only smiled slightly, and continued what he said just now: "I will call Aunt Yuan from time to time."

"I know, I know!" Xu Yuan immediately had a splitting headache, turned sideways and pressed her head against the car window, and muttered softly, "Really, do I still have personal freedom... Mr. Lin doesn't even have you Hold tight."

When Xu Xin heard her mentioning Lin An again, he couldn't help but move his gaze on the road.

Xu Yuanxu was too intense in the open day activities in the afternoon, and as soon as the car got on the elevated highway, he lay on one side and fell asleep completely.

Xu Xin galloped all the way on the straight viaduct, and the scene of the man who seemed awake but not drunk more than ten minutes ago kept appearing in his mind.And the rumors related to the other party that Xu Yuan said could not help ringing in his ears.

Lin An's performance tonight was indeed abnormal. Whether it was the self-drinking at the "celebration banquet" or the violent reaction without warning in the living room just now, these phenomena and phenomena that rarely or never happened to him The emotions made Xu Xin, who had long been accustomed to the other party's reserved, restrained, and even suppressed personality, feel a little strange and confused.

The road conditions after getting off the elevated road are much smoother than before. The closer you get to the bamboo garden, the quieter the surrounding environment becomes.When we got to the door of the house, it was so quiet that even the swaying of tree shadows could be heard clearly.Xu Yuan was so sleepy that it was difficult to open her eyes. After entering the door, she hurriedly climbed upstairs. Xu Xin habitually went to the study to sit for a while after washing.

The cooperation with City B has been finalized, but the follow-up work has become extremely difficult due to temporary policy changes. According to Li Ping, there is even the risk and crisis of being forced to stop at any time.Xu Xin stared at the plan in his hand that had just been adjusted by "whispering" last week, and stretched out his hand to press his temple a little tiredly.

The phone on the side suddenly vibrated at this moment. He wiped his face casually and looked at the lit screen, only to see Wen Wei's name popping out.

"Hey San'er, listen to Songlou, come to play two rounds? Brothers are all here." Wen Wei was talking enthusiastically at the other end.

From time to time, there were a few laughing and yelling sounds from the poker table, which formed a sharp contrast with the dullness in my own room.Xu Xin frowned, and rebuffed rather coldly: "No, I have something to do tomorrow morning."

"Oh, so..." The person on the opposite side seemed a little disappointed, and then smiled flatteringly: "That's fine, then let's make an appointment next time. What are you busy with all day long, kid? Isn't that cooperation case already taken down?" !"

Xu Xin responded nonchalantly, and didn't want to say more. Just as he was about to hang up, another voice faintly came from the other end. The tone was both sarcastic and teasing, "Have you touched your nose again? Hey What am I talking about, Mr. Xu Sanshao, there are plenty of 'confidantes' to accompany you, why do you want to follow behind your ass and worry about it! Go back and forth, you are just like you when you are a human being, see Tian'er's one-headed garlic - No petals?"

Everyone around laughed.

Wen Wei was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly argued with Xu Xin: "Hey San'er, don't worry about it, Ma Yifu is always talkative, don't listen to his nonsense, I don't mean it!"

Xu Xin smiled indifferently, and said calmly, "It's okay. You guys had fun." After speaking, he terminated the call and put the phone aside again.

The surroundings were silent again, and Xu Xin looked at the documents on the table for a while, but suddenly couldn't read any more, stood up and walked to the bookcase in front of the table.His gaze wandered aimlessly on the bookshelves, and after a while, he settled on a corner on the top floor—a red leather cigarette case was leaning silently on two volumes of Zhu Ziqing's anthology.

He stared at the place that hadn't been noticed for a long time, reached out and took off the two books and the cigarette case, brushed off the dust, put them in front of his eyes and looked at them quietly again.

The shell of the cigarette box is no longer as bright as it used to be, and even because it was soaked in river water, the whole shell is slightly deformed and yellowed.Xu Xin watched without moving, and his disturbed mood was inadvertently calmed down by this gaze.He was slightly taken aback by this change, and when he realized it, Lin An's voices and appearances in recent days had unconsciously appeared in his mind.They shuttle through various interlaced time and space, either real, or illusory, or dim, or brilliant, weaving a net together in the cold autumn night, binding people from head to toe, body and heart, so that It is difficult to discern the original course again.

So the boredom that was originally calmed down by the other party was rekindled by the other party in a blink of an eye.

And also besieged in this rustling autumn night is Cuifangyuan, which is far away at the other end of City C.

Lin An was lying on the sofa in the living room. He never thought that one day he would have such a strong resistance to alcohol. Although his body was very sleepy and weak, his brain and heart remained clear.

The light above the head fell into the eyes through the fingers covering the forehead, like countless unpredictable clouds wandering in the sky, sometimes scattered like sand, and sometimes gathered like smoke and fog.And time flows bit by bit in these chopped-up lights and shadows, until the sky outside the window changes from shallow to deep, and then from deep to bright.

Lin An didn't know how long he had been lying like this, and the thoughts in his head were chaotic, until it was almost early in the morning that the flags and drums finally died down, making room for the sleepiness that had been severely suppressed all night.

In the dream, he seemed to have returned to the endless fields in County X.I walked quickly along the field ridge, chasing the moon above my head all the way into the woods behind the field.

There is a river in the woods, and the moonlight shines on it, becoming the only light in this dark environment.

He stumbled and ran towards the light, but when he was about to arrive, he accidentally stepped on the mud next to the moss.As a result, the piercing pain rose from his leg instantly, but he didn't bother to check the wound, he was only thinking about getting up from the ground so that he could continue to walk towards the light source, but unexpectedly, after only two steps, he felt weak again. fall down.

And so on and on.

The long road seemed endless, and Lin An didn't know how many times he fell to the ground, or how many times he got up from the mud full of fear.He only knew that there was a person sitting at the place he tried his best to get close to.

A person who, like the river under the moonlight, is silent but radiates dazzling light.

But he couldn't catch this light after all - when the first ray of morning light broke through the darkness and shone into the window in the early morning, a slightly desolate and hurried ringing of the phone also broke in with the wind and rain.

Lin An hadn't completely escaped from the eagerness and despair in the dream, he only frowned when he heard the sound, and opened his dry eyes after a long while.

The phone has already been hung up once, but a new round of calls came in immediately without stopping, which shows that the caller is very anxious.

Lin An leaned on his head, resisted the discomfort and sat up, touched the phone stuck in the crevice of the sofa and pressed the call button, but before he could open his mouth, he was caught off guard by a shocking news on the phone dizzy.

I only heard Feng Ping's crying and slightly trembling voice ringing in my ears: "Mr. Lin, Mr. Lin, you, your classmate Zhou Tao, has an accident... Now, you are going to the hospital for emergency treatment..."