Xie Changxiao and Wen Qizhou are both orphans.
They are partners who cherish each other, and they are also brothers who share the same love and affection. The friendship they have cultivated since they were young is very deep.
On the eve of the end of the world, Wen Qizhou contacted Xie Changxiao, who was studying abroad, but he didn't know what went wrong with him, so he waited until mid-May to get through to his phone.
At that time, they happened to be buying supplies in the city where Xie Changxiao settled. He asked for the code of the door lock of Xie Changxiao's home on the pretext that he was bankrupt and had nowhere to go. While stocking up some food and rubber boats for him, he tricked him into returning to China to help He is busy.
Xie Changxiao rushed back before the acid rain came.
He kept the other person at home, and then the internet and signal were cut off, and they lost contact with each other.
"It's him!" Wen Qizhou took a closer look, his eyes filled with joy that was hard to ignore.
He was about to open the window, but he was worried that the cold wind coming in would make Chi Yue, who was in her menstrual period, cold. He turned to talk to her, and quickly walked to the living room without even putting on his coat.
"Changxiao──"
A loud shout rang in my ears.
Wen Qizhou walked to the glass window, put his left hand against the window slot, stretched out his upper body, and called him despite the howling wind and snow.
The wind and snow made his voice unclear, but Xie Changxiao, who patrolled the side of the foreign-style building, still captured it.
Xie Changxiao looked up and suddenly stopped when he saw Wen Qizhou leaning out of the window.
He ran two steps toward the foreign building excitedly, then turned back to the team to say hello to the captain, and then quickly ran into the safe passage.
Seeing him going upstairs, Wen Qizhou put on the coat handed over by Chi Yue, led her out in strides, and stood at the top of the stairs waiting for the figure he had not seen for two years to appear in front of him.
The moment their eyes met, they stepped forward to hug each other in tacit understanding, all their emotions revealed silently.
"Qizhou..."
"You are the most..."
Two voices sounded at the same time.
Wen Qizhou seemed to know what he wanted to ask, so he patted his back twice and led him into the warm bedroom.
He poured a cup of hot water for Xie Changxiao. Xie Changxiao's eyes wandered around him and Chi Yue, and he couldn't wait to lean forward and said: "How are you doing recently? Are you injured?"
"No, we are doing well." He hung up the down jacket that Xie Changxiao took off and sat down next to him.
He asked with concern: "What about you?"
"I'm okay too." Xie Changxiao was so excited that his hand holding the water glass was trembling: "I originally planned to go to Suishi City to find you when the snow stopped, but I didn't expect to meet you here."
The city he lives in is 800 kilometers away from Heyuan. He came to Heyuan because he wanted to go south to find them, but there were floods and heavy snowfalls, so he had no choice but to be trapped here.
Fortunately, they are reunited.
"It's a good thing you're in Heyuan." Wen Qizhou was moved by the fact that he went south alone just to find their friendship, and he couldn't help but feel happy: "Otherwise we would never be able to see each other again."
He and Chi Yue had thought about looking for Xie Changxiao in the city where he lived on the way north. If they didn't see him today, they would go south and north, and they might never meet again in this life.
Xie Changxiao also felt the same way.
He and Wen Qizhou chatted about the past year. Chi Yue went next door, took out two boxes of biscuits from the space, and poured them all into the plate: "I baked these myself, you can try them."
Because of Wen Qizhou's relationship, she and Xie Changxiao had known each other since childhood, and they often played together when they were young.
So we feel comfortable getting along with each other.
Xie Changxiao tasted one: "Not bad." He stared at the biscuit and recalled the past: "Do you still remember the time you gave me biscuits when you were fifteen years old? For that box of biscuits, a certain person who was unscrupulous... He almost broke up with me."
"Remember." Chi Yue glanced at a person who "forgot his loyalty" and said inexplicably: "Why do you want to break off the relationship?"
"There was a love letter in the biscuit box. He thought it was written by you." After many years, Xie Changxiao couldn't help but click his tongue when he recalled how crazy someone looked when he saw a love letter.
"...I didn't know there was a love letter in it." She took Wen Qizhou's arm and explained obediently: "I sent that box of biscuits to my classmates and it has nothing to do with me."
"Well, I asked clearly later." Wen Qizhou lowered his eyes and looked at her, and the tenderness in his eyes seemed to overflow.
The feelings that only come from falling in love with each other lingered around them. Xie Changxiao was even more certain that his brother, who had been tormented by secret love for many years, finally cleared the clouds and saw the light of day, embracing the beauty back home.
While he was happy to hear Qizhou, he also joked: "Please pay attention, I'm still sitting here."
"Then you cover your eyes?"
"...You need to have some face."
Wen Qizhou chuckled.
No more food was given to the single dog.
He looked at Xie Changxiao, who had not changed much, and his eyes stayed on his baton: "Why did you join the patrol team?"
"It's okay if you have nothing to do." Xie Changxiao crossed his legs leisurely: "And if the patrol team covers you, you can save a lot of points."
"Do you still have supplies there?"
"Yes." Xie Changxiao took a sip of water and said, "I often go out with the patrol team to look for supplies, and there are still a lot left."
Wen Qizhou is relieved for the time being.
Remembering that Xie Changxiao was still working, they didn't chat for too long and just said: "When you get off work, remember to come over for dinner."
"Okay." He said goodbye briskly.
Since they reunited, they have seen each other from time to time. Occasionally, Yao Chengwei and Zhao Peng, who live downstairs, come up to ask them to play cards, and they will take Xie Changxiao with them.
When there are more people, the days become more lively.
The snow falling outside the window has completely stopped in their second month of living in the foreign house, but the temperature is still dropping.
When the outdoor temperature dropped to minus 17, Wen Qizhou drove Chi Yue, who had passed her menstrual period, to the gymnasium.
Heyuan Gymnasium is very large, and there are no famous buildings or large shopping malls around it. Most people will not come here. It is very suitable for Fang Xing and Jin Ge to play laps in the snow.
Out of caution, they used binoculars to observe the nearby situation and made sure there was no third person. Chi Yue got out of the car and released the two horses that had been kept depressed.
"咴咴" the horse screamed.
Fang Xing and Jin Ge blinked their long eyelashes and took a look at the sudden change of environment, without leaving her sight.
Chi Yue touched them: "Go and play."
As if they understood her words, Fang Xing and Jin Ge rubbed her arms, swung their tails and ran wildly in the snow.
Their mane hairs fluttered in the wind, one red and one black, particularly eye-catching in the vast snow.
Seeing that they were having fun, she withdrew her gaze and walked with Wen Qizhou nearby, and then returned to the off-road vehicle after walking for a while.
After a while, Wen Qizhou leaned out of the car window and whistled at the two horses in the distance, and they immediately ran back.
Jin Ge stopped next to the driver's seat.
It knocked on the window twice with its head, bent its front feet, and lowered its upper body, as if signaling Wen Qizhou to sit on its horse.
"Get up, we're going home."
(End of chapter)
