A tall banyan tree at the end of the stone road has been struck by lightning, half of which is dead, and the other half is still thriving, showing a green color under the night.

The lighted dim sum shop under the banyan tree does not even have a shop name on the wooden signboard. In the yellowish glass counter that opens the door, there are sporadic pastries that are not sold out. The most old-fashioned kind, the shape is not exquisite enough,There are no bright colors either.Only the aroma is alluring.

"Is anyone there?" Li Xuan knocked on the counter.

"Wait." After a while, the door leading to the back kitchen rang, and an old man with gray hair answered, and walked out from the inside with his apron on, "Do you want some snacks? It's closed... Come early tomorrow? Eight o'clockJust open the door, there is something fresh out of the oven."

"I made a reservation in the afternoon." Li Xuan reported the number.

"Oh...yes, I forgot." Suddenly, the old man dragged his voice, "I'm waiting for you." Bending down, he took out a thick leather notebook from under the counter.

"My surname is Li, right?... I thought you weren't coming." He took out his reading glasses and put them on. He slid his fingers line by line on the page and found the name recorded. He raised his head and smiled kindly, "You guys sit down first.Well, it's ready, I'll get it."

There is a tie-dyed indigo cloth hanging on the left side of the counter. Going up a few steps, there are only two small wooden tables on the small jump floor.

Under the blowing of the night wind, the wind chimes made a delicate sound when they collided, and the warm yellow light was sprinkled on the petals of sunflowers and red gerbera in the ceramic bottle, and the crystal light was reflected by the water droplets.

"The order was late, the flower shop in the town can only buy so many flowers." They sat down at the wooden table, Li Xuan explained softly.

The bouquet was not grand enough, but the flowers were all full as if they were about to overflow from the bottle. Under the light, overlapping shadows occupied half of the table. Sheng Min touched the petals lightly, and the water droplets rolled down to his fingertips.He smiled, satisfied but helpless: "Why is your memory so good?"

"I don't know, I just remember it." Li Xuan said casually.

Sheng Min laughed, and looked around: "I haven't eaten osmanthus candy for a long time."

"At that time, you can try to see if the taste is still the same."

"How did you find this store?" Sheng Min looked up at him, "It's very troublesome, I don't even know, so I moved here."

"No trouble." Li Xuan shook his head, "Your request is not too much, so no trouble."

Sheng Min pursed her lips, which was rare to be narrow-minded, but her eyes were soft: "Are drama tickets easy to buy?"

Li Xuan shrugged: "It won't be more expensive than a computer mainframe."

Being repelled by the army, Sheng Min didn't make a sound, pursed his lips for a while and then whispered: "It's not like this."

"That's right." Li Xuan lowered his eyes and repeated, "It's not like this."

Footsteps could be heard outside the curtain, and the wooden stairs creaked.The old man came up with the tray.

On the top is a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus candies, which are crystal clear, and below are various dim sum, from peach blossom crisps to green dumplings.There are too many types, and the elderly are struggling to serve them, Li Xuan got up to take them, and put the dishes on the table one by one.

"I don't prepare much of each kind. It's too late, and the snacks are not easy to digest." The old man said, feeling a little regretful, "It's been a while since it was out of the oven, and it doesn't taste like it was just made."

Sheng Min picked up a piece of mung bean sorbet, took a bite, and added chopped plums in it.Wen Sheng said: "It's still delicious."

The old man just laughed, looked at Sheng Min and suddenly let out a surprise: "Young man, you look familiar."

Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but twitch his eyebrows, Sheng Min still smiled softly: "When I was driving on Binjiang Road, I often bought your sweet-scented osmanthus candy."

"Oh, no wonder it looks familiar." The old man nodded repeatedly and sighed, "It has been open for many years, and now the rent has risen, and I can't afford it... It's better to go home.want to come back..."

He rambled on and on for a while, and Sheng Min listened patiently the whole time.After a long time, the old man came back to his senses first, "Hey, look at me, people talk a lot when they are old... you eat. Just close the door when you leave, I'm going to sleep."

"It's late, I've wasted your time." Li Xuan handed the tray back to him.

"Nothing..." The old man waved his hand and walked down the stairs again.

Looking back, Sheng Min had already eaten half of the sweet-scented osmanthus candy.

"How?" Li Xuan couldn't help smiling.

"It tastes the same as before." Sheng Min briskly put the remaining half of the candy into his mouth, and pushed the plate towards him, "I know you don't like sweets, but would you like to try it?"

Li Xuan obediently sat down again and took a piece. In fact, he couldn't taste the difference between this sugar and others. It was still too sweet for him, so he took a sip of the tea.

"Is it tasty?"

The tea here is jasmine flakes. I think the quality is not very good. It is slightly astringent in the mouth, and it is more greasy when mixed with the sweetness left in the mouth.But Li Xuan looked at Sheng Min's look of anticipation on the opposite side, and nodded seriously: "Yeah."

When went downstairs, the overhead light in the shop had been turned off, leaving only a weak night light for illumination.There were two more bottles of crudely packaged sweet-scented osmanthus rice wine on the counter, and a piece of rice paper was pressed under it, saying that it was for them to taste.

The night got deeper and quieter, and the whole town fell into a deep sleep.Walking to the corner, Sheng Min turned his head, the shadow of the banyan tree had completely covered the small courtyard, only the faint scent of sweet-scented osmanthus remained.

They carried the wine and walked slowly along the path, like two wandering souls who were wandering and depended on each other, tacitly did not mention the matter of going back, it seemed that if they did not leave this town, they would not have to talk about the way forward or think about parting.

Turn around one by one to reach the river, facing a row of stilted buildings, casting shadows of different shades on the water.Sitting side by side by the river embankment, the evening breeze blows away the remaining heat.On the stone ladder connecting to the river surface, there was a pounding stick left by someone washing clothes, and a few reed boats were dangling. There were no people crossing the river. They were just decorations for this silent night.

There was no communication, they sat silently by the river.Sheng Min unscrewed the lid and drank the rice wine slowly, the dewy air soaked their clothes, after a while, he said in a low voice, "It's good now."

"What?" Li Xuan didn't hear clearly.

"Now." Sheng Min stretched his waist, repeated it, and smiled softly, "It's even better than tonight's drama."

"Why?" His smiling voice was like a hook, and Li Xuan couldn't help asking along with him.

Sheng Min thought about it for a while, and rubbed the water droplets on the bottle with his fingers: "Too many people."

It is too many people.Li Xuan thought, Sheng Min doesn't like crowded places, even though he is often trapped in crowds.

Annoyed at his lack of caution, he began to think seriously about the possibility of booking the venue, and suddenly he heard Sheng Min pick up the second half of the sentence that he had just left: "I want to be alone with you for a while."

The small sound was like a thunderclap, and I forgot what I was thinking.His mind went blank for a long time before he turned his head, but Sheng Min was also looking at him.

I don't know when drank half of the bottle of sweet-scented osmanthus rice wine. Looking at each other for a long time, Sheng Min suddenly smiled. With the cold stone slab in his palm, he moved closer.The faint aroma of rice wine filled the air, entwining Li Xuan like countless silk threads.

"I'm already very happy today." He leaned close to Li Xuan's ear, and said softly and slowly, as if sharing a secret with him, "But today is my birthday, you can make a wish, you can indulge a little, right? .....Besides, you came back to find me on your own initiative, so I want to be happier, shouldn't that be too much?"

He was probably drunk, Li Xuan didn't know that he could drink so badly, he felt a little regretful, he shouldn't have brought that bottle of wine.But is it really regrettable?It seems not quite right.

Sheng Min slowly moved away from his ear, looked at him and smiled.As they got closer, the thick black eyelashes brought a thin wind and fell on the skin of Li Xuan's cheeks. There were no stars tonight, and all the starlight fell in Sheng Min's eyes.

At this moment, Li Xuan gave up thinking, let his heart go, and looked at Sheng Min with the same focused eyes.The world was eclipsed, and they only had the shadow of each other in their eyes.Intimacy, entanglement in breathing, for a moment, Li Xuan thought he would get a kiss, but he didn't, Sheng Min's smile deepened, and after a long while, he just rested his head on his shoulder lightly, sighing: "Let me lean on for a while."

Unable to tell whether he was relaxed or lost, Li Xuan exhaled quietly, and adjusted his posture obediently, making Sheng Min lean more comfortably.

He looked down at the swirling hair on top of Sheng Min's head, resisting the urge to touch his soft hair. The wind blew the white clothes like white wings on his back, and Sheng Min's slender ankles swayed gently in the air.Li Xuan once again remembered the dream that had appeared countless times.

Sheng Min is really like a bird, he thought.The legendary footless divine bird flies over the boundless mountains, rivers and seas, and has only one chance to land once in a lifetime.Can I make him land safely?Would it be a good habitat?

No one can answer him.

Only the moon hangs on the edge of the blue velvet sky, shining brightly.But the moon does not speak, silently witnesses everything and tolerates everything.

Time seems to have stood still, like crystal amber falling out of thin air, freezing all things forever.Until the ethereal bell sounded from the mountain in the distance, twelve o'clock passed.

Sheng Min, who had always been docile and leaning on Li Xuan, finally moved. He turned his head and buried himself in Li Xuan's shoulder, smelling the fresh and clean breath again.

Is it still the original shampoo?He wanted to ask him.

"Li Xuan." So he called his name.

"Huh?" Li Xuan answered him lightly.

Sheng Min laughed silently, leaned against his neck and took a deep breath, letting his breath sink into his lungs, but said another sentence: "We will never see each other again."

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