"Why did you build a shed downstairs?" Xie Zijing looked around on the balcony, "I haven't seen it last time I came."

Qin Ge cut fruit in the kitchen and stretched out his head to respond to him: "Children's Day is coming soon, there are many children in the community, so we need to set up a charity market."

Xie Zijing only thought of one thing: It seems that he hasn't been to Qin Ge for a long time. He calculated that it would take five days. Five days! He thought, five days, if he planted green onions, the seedlings should have grown.

"What is the secret you want to tell?" Qin Ge took a bowl of peeled white jade loquats and walked to the balcony, frowned slightly, "I don't want to tell you all the way."

Xie Zijing smiled, picked up a loquat and put it in his mouth.

Qin Ge: "Spit the core."

Xie Zijing took half of it in one bite, supported his elbows on the railing, and his tongue rolled up the two loquat cores in his mouth, thinking about things.

Since it was a secret, it would be difficult to speak. Qin Ge did not urge him. He was interested in the past that Xie Zijing said, and also knew what the bouquet of flowers that Xie Zijing said was - in the waters of Xie Zijing, in the last shrunk drawer, the bouquet of flowers that are still alive, sunflowers and yellow rose and green carnations.

After eating half a bowl of loquats in one breath, Xie Zijing rubbed his stomach with a satisfied expression, took the bowl and walked into the room.

It is summer, the day is getting longer and the night is getting shorter, the poplar catkins disappear, and the whole city is filled with gratifying green. Two birds chasing each other crawl into the treetops, and the leaves are constantly shaking. The afterglow of the sunset comes out from between the buildings, from the gap between each new leaf, illuminating Qin Ge's face from a distance.

"The first time I saw you was in the Special Human Skills Competition." Xie Zijing leaned against the glass pushing door and scratched his head, "I am a senior high school sentry in the high school group. Are you a junior high school second? I don't know, I only know that you are from the guide group, named Yang Ge."

Qin Ge: "..."

What happened so long ago! Qin Ge couldn't say a word for a moment: Xie Zijing had his own photos in the "sea area" and put them on the table. It was indeed his outfit when he participated in a skill competition in junior high school. He even remembered the patterns engraved on the front and back of the gold medal clearly.

It was Qin Ge's first time to play in the regional competition. He was very excited and still remembered many details now. For example, the mental body of the sporty hoofed person running uncontrollably in the stadium, the irritable sentry who maintained order in the field and his gray fat wolf. It was the last wanton and joy he had experienced before his life encountered a huge change. He had repeatedly recalled while alone countless times, but no one like Xie Zijing had ever appeared in it.

Xie Zijing saw him recalling it blankly for a while, but he didn't respond to a word, so he knew that he couldn't remember it.

"You forgot me." He pretended to be angry and reached out to pinch Qin Ge's face, but Qin Ge avoided it. "You have given me a bouquet of flowers."

"I know that bouquet of flowers." Qin Ge saw his eyes lit up and quickly explained, "I have seen it in your 'waters'. That bouquet of flowers is nothing special. Isn't everyone who came to the stage to receive the award in that competition?"

Xie Zijing: "I don't."

Qin Ge: "How is it possible..."

He suddenly stopped talking, and a strange expression gradually appeared on his face.

The stadium was filled with people. The cheers and applause from the audience were resounding. The voices and music of the commentator were played alternately from the radio. The sentries and guides of the Crisis Office patrolled back and forth in the venue. There was no cloud in the sky, as blue as the endless summer planted in Yuyuan Pond. Colorful confetti and ribbons fluttered on the podium, and a sentry jumped from the highest point of the podium, and the gold medal on his chest reflected a dazzling sunlight.

"...It's you." Qin Ge was not sure, "You are the senior brother without flowers!"

Xie Zijing leaned against the glass door and nodded. The dusk illuminated half of his face, and his eyes, which were flashing with tears, seemed to have a sigh and gratitude. He was afraid that his emotions would be perceived by Qin Ge, so he quickly turned his eyes away: "Yes... it's me."

.

Without any prompts, Qin Ge would almost never think of Xie Zijing.

In his memories, Xie Zijing was like a reporter interviewed after the game, like thousands of people watching the game in the audience. He just passed by him, but did not leave any impression of being salvaged in the future.

At that time, Qin Ge and his classmates finished the reporter's interview and were walking back into his team through the gap in front of the podium.

The sun was so fierce that something flashed his eyes: it was a sentry who had just jumped off the podium, shaking his gold medal.

"Damn, Yang Ge, it's him!" The partner pulled himself, "The senior brother who broke the record of sentry in the high school group!"

In fact, Qin Ge and the others are not from the same school as the sentry. Except for the "Senior Brother", they don't know how to call the young man in front of them, they only know that he is the champion of the sentry in the high school group. Qin Ge thought to return to the team and call his parents to report the good news. He ummed twice and continued to walk forward. At this time, two teachers carrying cameras suddenly rushed in front of him.

"Don't move, don't move! Take a single photo first."

"Senior Brother" was glancing at Qin Ge, and the teacher had already pressed the shutter at him. After the filming, the teacher was stunned and raised his head: "Where are you flowers? It's not good to look at it if you don't have flowers on camera."

"I just gave it to someone else." The young sentry scratched his nose, "A man asked me if I could give him a kiss. I said no, give you the flowers, you can kiss this."

Teacher: "...you...ah! That flower was specially designed for this year's competition. The colors and gold medals, uniforms and competition logos are matched, and there is no flower that is not perfect."

The passage was narrow, and Qin Ge and his classmates were blocked by the two of them could not walk through. Qin Ge was still holding a bouquet of flowers in his hand. After hearing the teacher's words, he handed it directly to the sentry.

"I have it here," he said, "hold it, senior brother."

In this way, the bouquet of flowers was transferred from his hand to the sentry's hand.

"Thank you." The sentry held the flower and kept staring at him, "What's your name?"

Qin Ge's two fingers merged, raised his forehead and smiled handsomely: "Lei Feng."

The sentry and the teacher laughed. Then Qin Ge was immediately pulled away by his classmates who shouted "It's so embarrassing". They ran back to their team and did not look back along the way.

This was just a trivial matter, and this slap in his hand could not leave any deep marks in his memory. But Qin Ge remembered now that his photo was placed in the frame on Xie Zijing's desk. It was actually not a photo, but the impression in Xie Zijing's eyes when Qin Ge held the bouquet of flowers and handed it to Xie Zijing.

What he forgot became Xie Zijing's precious treasure, and the precious land was sealed in that small, difficult-to-maintain "sea area".

Xie Zijing reached out to pinch his face again, but Qin Ge did not avoid it this time.

"You forgot." Xie Zijing said, "You never remember me."

Qin Ge thought to himself, how can I remember this? For him, Xie Zijing was just a passerby that day.

Xie Zijing lowered his head and kissed his forehead. After hesitating for a moment, he lowered his head and kissed Qin Ge's nose.

"I'm sorry." Qin Ge whispered, "I'll remember it in the future."

Xie Zijing suddenly became excited. His eyes turned red and he hugged Qin Ge tightly, buried his head on Qin Ge's shoulders, but kept taking deep breaths. Qin Ge hurriedly hugged him and patted his back lightly.

"…Summer vacation is after the skills competition." Xie Zijing's hoarse voice was filled with a nasal voice that was hidden by his efforts. "I received the admission letter from New Hope. My father was very happy. He planned to take us on a trip. My mother said she had classmates working in Lhasa, and we decided to set off soon."

Qin Ge was stunned.

The summer vacation of that year was the darkest and unbearable day for him.

"There is Jiwu Temple in our itinerary." Xie Zijing did not dare to look up, nor did he let go of his arms that hugged Qin Ge tightly.

Qin Ge patted his shoulder: "Xie Zijing...what does it mean? Tell me clearly. Look at me!"

Xie Zijing did not have the courage to look at Qin Ge. He covered his face with one hand and leaned against the railing, and then spoke in a low voice after a long time.

"I've been hesitating after knowing that your parents were in Luquan near Jiwu Temple. I want to tell you that I may know something, but I can't remember it." His voice trembled, "Qin Ge, I'm very scared. I'm a coward... I'm afraid you will ask me to reveal the secrets in the 'water area'. I don't like this... so I didn't say anything."

Qin Ge pulled his hand away toughly and looked at Xie Zijing: "Why are you willing to say it now? Is it because you know that Bai Xiaoyuan and Tang Cuo also have something to do with the Luquan incident?"

Xie Zijing nodded.

"I'm sorry." He held Qin Ge's hand, and because he never had the courage to face Qin Ge directly, he had to hold Qin Ge's hand to block his eyes. "I'm sorry... I... I must know some things. Those memories might be outside the room. But I'm really scared... My 'sea area' is too terrible, too disgusting, sorry... I want to tell you, but I don't dare. I can't sleep every day, and I'm thinking about these things all the time."

Until he learned that the Luquan incident was also related to Bai Xiaoyuan and Tang Cuo. They never gave up investigating the truth.

"The truth may be in my mind."

Qin Ge's palms were moist. Xie Zijing cried.

"I'm sorry." He kept apologizing.

"Xie Zijing, look at me." Qin Ge said, "If you don't look at me, I will never talk to you again."

Xie Zijing let go. He lowered his head and wiped his face before he dared to look up. Qin Ge approached him and kissed his chin, his lips and cheeks with tears.

"...I was wrong." Xie Zijing said hard during the gap between his kisses.

"You did nothing wrong." Qin Ge approached him, his voice as rapid as his breathing, flowing out of his mouth, sneaking into each other's lips and tongues, "Who said you were disgusting in the 'sea area'? Lu Qing came?"

Xie Zijing finally did not avoid this question this time. He nodded.

"Teacher Lu is right. No one's 'water area' is like me...it's very abnormal."

"The abnormal person is Lu Qinglai." Qin Ge held Xie Zijing's face, wishing he could pry open his head and pulled out all the things that Lu Qing had instilled in him. He looked at Xie Zijing and said firmly, "Your 'sea area' is not disgusting, and you are not disgusting either. There will definitely be someone who likes you, such as me, Bai Xiaoyuan and Tang Cuo. Xie Zijing, it's really great to have you in the world. You know I don't like Gao Tianyue, but the only thing I am grateful to him is that he lets you come to the transfer department and lets me know you."

Qin Ge's voice was also trembling. He had been not used to expressing himself directly in this way for many years.

"If you really see something, everyone will thank you." Qin Ge looked at Xie Zijing's red eyes, "Especially me, you remember. I will always be grateful to you for everything in the past and present."

Xie Zijing hugged him tightly again.

"I know you once pity me." He murmured, his voice moist and low, lingering in Qin Ge's ears, "I don't need pity, nor do I want to be grateful."

Qin Ge was waiting for his next sentence, but after Xie Zijing took a deep breath, he swallowed the words he was about to say immediately.

"Come in, Qin Ge." He whispered, "but if you are scared by my 'sea area', I might hate you."

Qin Ge closed his eyes. Warm power surged from him, soft and thick, wrapping both of them inside. The thin hair stroked Xie Zijing's cold arms and face. His tears fell, and his uneasiness made him unable to do anything except hug Qin Ge tightly.

Xie Zijing's "sea area" is as usual, and Qin Ge does not see any obvious changes.

He opened the third drawer, and the bouquet was still placed inside. But this time, Qin Ge felt a lot of complicated emotions in his heart. The second drawer also had Xie Zijing's certificate of honor and photos of the day. Xie Zijing's eyes were staring at someone outside the camera, with a smile on his lips.

Qin Ge had never realized the past, and he put Xie Zijing's photo together with his own photo on the table, and later he said "fool".

The wardrobe behind him suddenly rang out and a crack was opened.

Qin Ge immediately stood up, rushed to the wardrobe, and opened the cabinet door.

A man was squatting in the closet. The sudden influx of light shone on his face. Qin Ge looked at the man, his heart pounding: it was the young Xie Zijing.

The boy in the photo had the same hairstyle and was wearing the same sportswear. Xie Zijing in the closet looked at Qin Ge and opened his arms at him. Qin Ge hugged him. At this moment, he suddenly saw that wind seemed to be pouring in from the dark corner of the closet, blowing his and Xie Zijing's hair.

The cabinet door suddenly closed, and Xie Zijing and him fell on the floor of the room.

There was no light on the ceiling, but the room was always bright. 18-year-old Xie Zijing straddled him, bent down, kissed him carefully, and then lay on Qin Ge, and tied Qin Ge in his arms with extraordinary strength.

"You have grown up." His voice was very different from Xie Zijing now. He has not been eroded by tobacco and still has a little bit of childishness from his youth. "I always want to lie with you like this."

Qin Ge: "…when did it start?"

Xie Zijing: "When I first met you."
To be continued...