Waiting for a long time, Captain

Chapter 22

The car passed smoothly at noon on the fourth day. After calculating the time, I could still catch up with the small market in the evening when I arrived in the city.Gu Zeng saw his current appearance in the rearview mirror, his face was covered with dust and yellow sand, similar to Uncle Zhang.On the other hand, the people around me don't know how they did it. Their faces are still clean, except for some yellow sand stuck in their hair.It's really enviable.

Uncle Zhang has always felt that he came this time to stockpile goods for the protection station, and was almost delayed by the heavy snow.If you don't buy anything back, you will definitely be scolded.It's all right now, I've been shopping around in the small market and bought a lot of things.

Cen bought her a small mirror today, with peacocks printed on the copper surface, it's so small that you can carry it with you.He laughed and said, "Dowry beauty, how can there be no mirror?" It's not that he didn't see her in the car, and glanced at the rearview mirror from time to time.It is a girl's nature to love beauty, and he thinks it is cute.

Gu Zeng was seen through by him, so he kept silent, put away the mirror anyway, and later bought him some thick clothes.The street they were on ended in a square with people dancing on the lawn.

Wearing authentic national costumes, the man is wearing a mask, black face and white beard with a hat strap, red cloth bag and skirt, swinging his big arms, it should be a ceremony.They looked around the crowd for a while and began to look for a place to stay for the night.

"Can I take a shower today?"

"If conditions permit, I won't stop it." He pursed his lips and looked into the distance, but Gu Zeng felt that this sentence was weird, as if he was teasing her.

"I was trapped in the mountains for several days, and my clothes were dirty. Don't you really think I stink?"

"I won't tell you that the body is just a skin and you don't need to care about it. I know that many girls have a sound mind based on their complete body and facial features. Smell is a decoration, at least not so important to me."

Gu Zeng wanted to laugh: "You mean, you care about whether my body and facial features are intact?" She put it another way, "If I lose a certain part of my body, or if I look ugly, are you Don't you care?"

"Gu Zeng, the topic of the body is not suitable for discussion on the street." He held her shoulders and walked slowly, letting the local people next to him cast their eyes frequently, "Especially, we are in this environment now, and we are still very striking."

After saying this, she felt that the word she just blurted out was so explicit.She looked down, blushing again.

"Because of your bold question just now, I will give the answer now." Standing at the door of a hotel that looked good, he stopped, with a smile, "You have a sound body, a soft body, and good features, at least I like it very much .Sometimes inadvertent gestures will test my self-control to a great extent."

The last words came from a low and hoarse voice: "You are warm and strong, simple and long-lasting, and you have the most beautiful qualities of an oriental woman in my opinion."

Gu Zeng opened his mouth, completely speechless.Every verbal dispute will be defeated in the end with a sure-losing attitude. It's really... She hugged his arm and acted like a baby, "Captain Cen, please, don't praise me again in the future."

"why?"

"I'd be proud."

"Not even expressions based on facts?"

"Not very good."

"Ok?"

"Your compliments sound like love words, especially when you deliberately lead me."

"I think that's necessary for the sake of our relationship."

"You've never spoken so forcefully before."

"I think you are very cute after releasing your nature."

Gu Zeng fell in love with two things that are not unique here, butter tea and highland barley wine, and he couldn't extricate himself.She and Cen said today that after drinking the wine here, they suddenly felt that the ones they drank before were tasteless.

His explanation is: "The reason why people drink too much is simply to get drunk, or maybe they are looking for nerve stimulation like my aunt. Another example, when I am sick, I want to divert my attention, but I don't like bars and places, I naturally become a smoker, but to be honest, I can't detect the smell of tobacco at all."

She nodded: "So, I think those wines are tasteless because I was in a bad mood at the time, and I enjoy it now because I am in a good mood."

"It's not impossible to understand it in this way." He put one hand in his pocket, pressed the sun hat on top of her head with the other hand, and then put it on her shoulder. "It may also be that the highland barley wine is really delicious."

They wandered the streets and alleys of the city, and the most amazing thing was that they went to a workshop for making incense.You can smell a very special fragrance ten meters away from the entrance, and you can see that all the fragrances are hung on the beams of the house, hanging down round by round.

To go further inside, you need to bend down and walk slowly under the hanging incense sticks. Cen has been holding her hand today, even in a narrow place that is not very convenient to pass, he has never let go.

There are tourists who come to sleep in a room covered with incense powder. They can sleep from morning to night, which is called "incense".

"I heard that someone slept here for several days. After leaving and returning to his hometown, everyone asked him where the fragrance on his body came from. His answer was heaven." They are on the incense road at the moment, watching many masters making The last process of the spices, taking them out of different molds.

"This place really has a calming and gentle power to it."

There are many shapes of molds. Following her inner thoughts, she carefully selected a few and put them back in her bag. She couldn't help but say to him: "If you are healthy, I want to sleep here with you all the time."

He nodded and kissed her forehead: "As long as you want, any situation is fine."

"Don't spoil me too much, Captain Cen." She acted like a baby.

About three days later, they got on the bus to Kunming.Gu Zeng always wanted to ask why he had to choose that place as the initial location.

"I showed you an oil painting, remember? The old painter settled in a small town in Kunming." He said, "I chose to start there, and I want to end there."

On the bus, there are men and women from the plateau singing duets, expressing affection, enthusiasm and unrestrained.Everyone seemed to need no rest. They looked for each other's eyes in the crowd, and they could call names for who would sing in chorus.There was a girl walking from the front of the car to the back of the car, her beautiful big eyes wandered romantically in the eyes of the men, and finally chose Cen Today.

"God, it's a famous love song here." A girl sitting behind Gu Zeng explained to her: "The love song she sang is courting your boyfriend."

Gu Zeng's face became hot from the words, and the girl stood next to her, reaching out her hand to Cen Today.Everyone in the carriage was booing, and the girl behind was still fanning the flames, "She changed the lyrics, saying that the man next to you is the most handsome man she has ever seen in her life, and she wants him to stay in this beautiful place."

How could you sing this to him like no one else?Most importantly, he didn't seem to want to refuse, and he was asking for her approval with a signal look.With such a big mess and so many people watching, how should she behave so that she doesn't look so generous and not so stingy?

But before she could respond in time, the enthusiastic girl had already held Cen Today's hand and began to sing affectionately.

"As for the interpretation of "Love Song", the most vivid translation is that the peaceful face that I have practiced cannot appear in my heart, but the face of my lover that I have not cultivated is clearly reflected in my heart."

When the girl behind Gu Zeng heard this translation, she covered her mouth and laughed until her shoulders trembled.She pushed Gu Zeng's arm, and said softly, "This is the most love-talking man I've ever seen."

Cen nodded today and smiled.

After the girl finished singing, she looked at him with a blushing face, and everyone in the car was shouting, wishing to drag him into the crowd and embrace the girl passionately.

Gu Zeng turned to look at him, discussed and asked, "Why don't you sing a song as a gift?" Besides, she had never heard him sing.

"Really let me sing?"

"Ok?"

"I'm tone deaf, and when I was in the army, I was the worst."

Gu Zeng was jumping in his heart: "It's not a good excuse, but I like it."

In the end, he still hummed softly, his voice was very low, and the cold temperature made people feel a little distant.But look at his eyes and smile, and feel that he is very gentle and elegant.

Such a man has the magnanimity and rigor of serving in the army for many years, but at the same time, he is deeply aware of love and piousness. When communicating with him and looking at him, he has no rules, but he can be captured by his love words without limit.The majestic mountains and plains, the sound of the wind, closing your eyes, it was him walking towards her.

Everyone is amazed.It is no exaggeration to say that all the women in this car are looking at him, even the men can't take their eyes off.Fortunately, he only hummed for a while, and was picked up by another young man. He warmly and authentically sang a Yi song, and stretched out his arms to the girl just now.

When the song reached its peak, the uncle driver simply stopped the car and let them dance happily until the young man grabbed the girl's hand.

When she looked at him, there was another him looking at her.

"Every relationship in this world has a cause and effect. The relationship between us begins with faith and is deeper than warmth."

The road outside is endless, surrounded by peaks and mountains.She feels that this place can really make a person who has never been brave in the past want to speak out loudly what he really thinks at this moment.

"Ah Cen, come back to Beijing, can we live together? Let me take care of you."

Her voice was low, but loud enough for him to hear.Sunlight was shining down on the bumpy mountain road, and he took her hand accurately in the moment of darkness, and slowly opened his lips: "Okay." Fortunately, he still grabbed her hand.

The car stopped halfway and changed to a car to Kunming. When buying a ticket, she found that she had lost her ID card and even her wallet.Realizing that she might have been stolen, she found a place to carefully look through her bag, and found that there were not many things to lose, except her mobile phone and some trinkets bought on the road.

She carefully recalled that it should be the child who was walking behind them when they got off the car, sticking behind her all the time, as if rushing to get off the car, pushing her while squeezing through the crowd.

"What should I do?" She stared blankly at Cen Today, "Although there is not much cash in it, I lost my ID card and passport."

There were not many people at the station. They tried to find the child, but they couldn't find it.The local soldiers asked them to leave their identity information, promising to help as much as possible, and to notify them in time if they found it.

Fortunately, Cen was rich and powerful, so he chartered a car to go to Kunming, and solved the ticketing problem smoothly.It was already evening when they arrived in the urban area. They got off the car not far from Yuantong Temple and walked to the gate of Yuantong Temple on foot.

There are still quite a few people praying on the porch at this time, sitting together in groups of three or four.

She and Cen had been in the car all day today, and they were both a little tired.Especially when walking on the mountain road, she vomited several times due to dizziness, and now she has almost no strength, and the coldness under her feet is still heavy.

"I really wish I could sleep in this place." Just saying that, I saw a few backpackers walk to the porch, unload their backpacks on the ground, lie down and sleep directly, this feeling is as natural as coming home .A few minutes later, she saw the smile in Cen Today's eyes and heard snoring not far away.

"Aren't they cold like this?"

"Most practitioners don't care about the cold or heat. In other words, they think that only after experiencing physical torture can they cultivate a certain state of mind."

"I... I take back what I just said."

Because they were very tired, they finally decided to find a place to rest first.When I was leaving, I saw those backpackers being chased away by soldiers.

Sleepy-eyed with bags on their backs, they whispered to each other as they walked past, "Wait a little longer, or go around the back door from the nearby zoo and go to sleep."

How can you survive the coldest months of winter with just a simple sleeping bag?Although, although Kunming is indeed not very cold, but... the equipment is too simple.

She felt so surprised, she still looked back after taking two steps, but Cen just smiled today, and walked forward while holding her hand.

"I saw a boy with congenital autism who loved his mother very much. He came here because of his mother's influence. He walked through many places on foot and finally settled here."

Turning the corner, I finally found a hotel that looked decent.He smiled and continued, "When he doesn't want to talk, he doesn't talk for half a year or a year."

Gu once remembered that the child's mother said this to her in the hotel on the border. At that time, he was teasing the sheep in the sheepfold not far away, and she thought he didn't hear him.Now it seems that he should have heard it, otherwise he wouldn't have told her.

"Autism is also a manifestation of social impairment."

"I know."

Going up the stairs, he walked behind with his luggage, and the topic of conversation with each other remained the same.Walking to the corner, there is a person upstairs and downstairs.Because the space was a little narrow, they all stopped to make way for that person.

He still said: "He is congenital, and it cannot be said that he has not been affected by the social environment at all, but he is still very good now, always smiling at me. In those days, we traveled all over the city of Kunming together."

When standing at the door of the room, she finally couldn't help interrupting his indomitable topic, and asked with a smile, "What exactly do you want to say?"

"The more I experience the long darkness, the more I want to bring warmth to the people around me. What I wanted to express in Paris that time is exactly the same as what I want to say in the center of the plateau. Gu Zeng, you make me fascinated."

The door was closed, and the light in the room was dim.He lowered his head, found her mouth and kissed her.Her voice was a little low, and from the sound of the wind blowing in from the unclosed windows, she noticed that there was something special about this night.

"A Cen." She called him in a low voice, calling his name over and over again.Cen wanted to say a lot today, but got stuck in his throat countless times. In the end, he could only respond to her, kissing her over and over again.

There was a trace of palpitation and fear, worried that if he missed this opportunity, he might not be able to have her again.Just now, a text message entered his cell phone.When she turned her head to look at those backpackers frequently, he clicked on it, and it was Xu Shen's post.

The air in the room is a little cold.The bed was sunken, and Gu Zeng touched his face in the dark, with distinct features, from the brow to the corner of the eye, touched his eyelashes, which were very long, and itched between his fingers.Imagining such a person, at this moment, her eyes are all about her.

The breathing was messy, their bodies were tightly knit together, their arms were pressed flat on the bed, and they could touch something on the bedside table. She closed her eyes to distinguish the plastic thing she touched, which seemed to be a rubber ring.Thinking of the current environment and what she was doing, her face suddenly became hot.

"Gu Zeng, I have asked someone to check your passport information, and there will be news as soon as tomorrow night. If we make it in time, we will go back tomorrow night."

"Okay." She replied in a daze, her whole body was very hot, like a boat floating in the lake at the moment, because she was sleepy and warm.

It was supposed to be a beautiful night, but it ended because of her deep sleep.

When Gu Zeng woke up at 04:30 in the morning, she was the only one in the room. She waited for a while, but she still didn't see him back. She was a little worried, so she got dressed and went to find him.

When I went out, I turned around aimlessly. At this time, there were only a few people on the street. Occasionally, I could see one or two backpackers passing by her, and they just smiled kindly.When she walked near Yuantong Temple, she saw quite a few people gathered under the porch, sitting together in groups holding cushions.

Most of the cotton pads were tattered and had been repaired many times, and some people were wearing clothes that were ripped at the knees and kneeling with their backs straight.

She just took a serious look and found him in the crowd.As he got closer, he heard him talking to someone.

"Are you religious?"

"No, but I also believe in fate."

"Want to stay here?"

"No, I already have a wife."

"Where are you going?"

"I wanted to go to Dounan Flower Market."

"why?"

"That's where I was born again."

"I heard that there is a famous oil painter in Dounan Flower Market, who painted hundreds of portraits there a few years ago."

……

Gu Zeng found a cotton pad from a corner and sat beside him.When the middle-aged man who spoke to him walked away, she began to talk to him: "That oil painter, I mean the one who painted the portraits, is that you?"

"I didn't learn to draw, but I was sick at that time and wanted to find something to do, so I drew portraits of many people in the flower market." He smiled, turned sideways and brushed the hair on her face, and asked softly , "Did you sleep well?"

Gu Zeng lowered his head, his ears felt a little hot again.He didn't continue last night, but stopped suddenly, just looked at her like this, and kept looking at her in silence.She felt something was wrong, thinking of his behavior along the way, nervously asked him if he lost his sight again, and then told herself that she was going back to Beijing tomorrow.

His response was simple, leaning over to kiss her, and saying he could see.In short, the topic was brought over again.

The morning light was cool, she touched his face, and answered his question: "It's good."

"Just now I said that I wanted to go to Dounan Flower Market, but now I don't plan to go?"

"Ah."

"why?"

"I feel that the oil painting I left behind is too ugly, and I am embarrassed to let you see it."

Gu Zeng supported his head and pinched his jaw: "Captain Cen, you are talking nonsense again." Thinking of losing her mobile phone and wallet, she continued to ask, "Yesterday you said you would go back to Beijing tonight? What about my passport?" ?” When he said this, the door of Yuantong Temple opened, and the backpackers packed up their things and went inside. They took advantage of the opportunity to go in and have a look, and the topic stopped there.

It is very intuitive that the entire temple is very large, and the majesty reveals the tranquility and silence, and the incense is lingering.Walking all the way, you can see the bluestone board in front of the door, leaving a deep imprint of the length of the head.Many tourists stopped suddenly before entering the hall, put their hands on their foreheads, prostrated themselves against the stone slab, and kowtowed their heads.

She and Cen avoided that scene today, walked in through the side door, and saw the dragon totem on the wall behind the high threshold.A very faint morning light leaped out from the east and shone on him, making her at a loss for words to describe his focus on looking at the totem at the moment.At this time, the sound of chanting sutras came from the practice cave, slow and mighty.

After waiting quietly for a while, he took her hand and walked into the hall.They walked very slowly. They were in the monastery for about two hours, and they didn't want to go out until there were more people.

Finally, walking outside along a red wall, the sun came out, shining gently on thousands of faces, feeling very comfortable.After walking for a while, I saw a row of prayer wheels.

The golden light reflected the black shadow on the ground, and her fingers lightly touched those prayer tubes, turning them around, wondering if he really buried her with his own hands in the last life.

Her voice was very soft, and she was communicating with him: "When I walked on the Stone Tower Bridge just now, I thought of the story of the white lady and Xu Xian."

He pursed his lips and smiled: "I am Lady Bai, and you are Xu Xian?"

"Hey, Captain Cen, you can't change someone's gender just because you look good."

"Xu Xian is very handsome." He deliberately teased her, narrowing his eyes slightly.

Gu Zeng was a little sensitive to his actions, and completely lost interest in joking. He approached and asked, "What's wrong? Are your eyes uncomfortable?"

"Don't be nervous," he said, "it's all right, it's just that the sun is a bit harsh."

She breathed a sigh of relief: "I heard that there is a street not far from Yuantong Temple, which sells a lot of things, much more than the small market before. I want to buy some things to give to Qingya and Xu Shen."

Cen paused for a moment today, and said slowly: "It may be too late in time, we will go back to the hotel to pack our things and go to the airport later."

"my passport……"

"Just a temporary ID card is all you need."

"Why do you want to go back in such a hurry?"

The feeling of uneasiness became stronger, and she bit her lip to test: "Your eyes have deteriorated? Or, is there something else?"

"Yesterday I received a text message from Xu Shen, because your phone is lost, so she can only contact me."

His tone made her heart sink completely, Gu Zeng thought about all the people he could think of, and finally looked at him, his eye sockets were sore and turned red, and he got the final affirmative answer.

"Your father suffered a sudden cerebral infarction and passed away."

Going back to the hotel from Yuantong Temple, you need to bypass a small street. After [-] o'clock in the morning, the businessmen have already come out to set up stalls.Her head was filled with all kinds of yelling, and she didn't understand the local language, so she just felt confused and didn't have the mood to pay attention to it.

I buried my head and walked back along the street, and walked quickly towards the hotel. Coming out of Yuantong Temple is a lively market, and passing through is the residence.After walking for about 5 minutes, she stopped suddenly before seeing the hotel.At this moment, there was a loud noise behind her, she turned around suddenly, and many people surrounded her in the middle of the road.

Because of this movement, the eyes become blurred.Did not see him.Her heart sank, she walked towards the direction where the crowd gathered, and ran behind, tears fell down so unexpectedly.

The voice just now was so loud and so clear... Everyone on the street looked towards the source of the sound. She hurriedly analyzed the voices in the crowd, as if she said that a car had hit someone, not a local.

After taking two steps forward, I was standing in the middle of the road, and suddenly my footsteps seemed to weigh a thousand catties.

After meeting him, it seemed like I was going to shed all the tears for a lifetime.How can you do this?How could he just turn around and leave him there alone?

The noisy crowd suddenly relaxed again, and the people squeezed out from the center of the encirclement saw her and said with a smile: "It's okay, I hit a bull... This big oolong can scare people." Seeing that she didn't respond, they still He stepped forward and patted her on the shoulder, "The sound just now was scary, but don't stand in the middle of the road."

"Oh, oh..." She sniffed in a low voice, "Thank you."

Then go back the same way.On the edge of the long red wall, she finally found him.It was just such a glance, but it made me cry bitterly.

He was touching the prayer wheel with his eyes closed, pretending to be listening to the bell of the temple.The people passing by also think so, so they won't notice that the truth he wants to hide at this moment is that he can't see.But he couldn't tell others, and he didn't know who to turn to for help.

The person who vowed to take care of him just abandoned him and walked away alone.Because of some emotions, I didn't even look back for him.

Gu Zeng cried until his voice became hoarse. He just looked at him like this, and walked past the prayer tubes one by one, covering his mouth and not daring to make a sound. He cried for a long time, and he was really about to be unable to breathe.Until someone saw, saw the girl who was crying very sad not far from this man, and couldn't help whispering, and he heard it.

"Gu Zeng, is that you?" He tried to call out.

She didn't answer, afraid of being heard by him at the moment, her voice was hoarse and dry.But he was already determined, so he opened his arms like no one else, and smiled: "Don't cry, come to me."

(End of this chapter)