He rushed back to the police station and rushed upstairs. Chu Xingyun pushed open the office door and wanted to lift his foot in, but suddenly stood at the door and stopped.

He Cheng had nothing to do. He sat on the sofa with his arms on his legs, his hands were squinted against his chin, and he was staring at the wet ground with his head down. His face was not very good-looking, and he was a little gloomy. The windbreaker on his body was watered for some reason and was wet.

"What's going on?"

He walked in and asked.

Yang Kaitai was sweeping the floor with a broom. When he saw him coming back, he said, "I heard something happening in the office just now, so I opened the door and looked at it. But he saw that the fish tank was broken. Mr. He was lying on the ground without any response."

His attention was all on He Cheng, and he didn't even care about the water and broken glass on the ground. After Yang Kaitai said this, he found that the fish tank standing next to He Cheng was cracked for some reason, as if it was smashed by someone to swing a hammer. The glass on all sides was broken on three sides, and the water inside flowed out all over the floor.

Chu Xingyun walked to He Cheng, squatted on the ground and grabbed his hand: "What's wrong with you? Why did you faint?"

He Cheng's face was very wrong. Seeing him asking, he frowned and wanted to hide. His eyes were flickering. He slightly turned his head to avoid his eyes, his tone was weak and tired: "I don't know."

Chu Xingyun frowned and looked at him for a moment, then turned around and said to Yang Kaitai who was sweeping the floor, "Sanyang, you go out first."

Yang Kaitai responded, leaned against the coffee table, and quickly walked out, and did not forget to help them close the door.

After Yang Kaitai left, the only two of them were left in the office. The office was very quiet. Only a few fish temporarily living in paper cups were unable to move in a narrow territory, and the sound of their heads and tails hitting the wall of the cup.

He Cheng seemed very sensitive to this voice and repulsive. When he heard the fish struggling in the paper cup, his face turned pale again, frowned tightly, and showed a little pain, suppressing his trembling breath and saying, "Brother Xingyun, take them away."

He said, "Brother Xingyun", and Chu Xingyun went through fire and water and was too late to pieces, let alone pack up a few fish.

Without asking why, Chu Xingyun picked up the paper cup and opened the office door, shouting: "Three Sheep!"

He handed the fish to Yang Kaitai, closed the door and turned around and looked at it, his heart suddenly twitched.

He Cheng stood on the ground covered with water stains, lowered his head and looked around blankly, as if he was anxiously looking for an exit, but he couldn't find it. It seemed that he was trapped in the spot not a layer of water that was gradually missing the soles of his shoes, but a vast ocean.

His face was panicked, confused, and his panicked expression seemed to retreat as if he was a child.

Chu Xingyun walked over and grabbed his hand, took him out of the water on the ground, took him to the leather chair behind the desk, pressed his shoulder to let him sit down, then leaned against the table and asked, "Do you want to talk to me?"

He Cheng's face improved slightly, as if he was gradually awakening from a chaotic dream, and then he recognized who the person in front of him was. He stared at his face for a long time, and finally closed his eyes and sighed as if he was relieved, saying, "I remembered it."

Chu Xingyun's throat suddenly became nervous. He breathed a sigh of relief before asking, "What have you remembered?"

"The sound I heard in the banquet hall was not the sound of a crystal ball falling to the ground."

“What is it?”

He Cheng slowly raised his eyes and looked at him, his eyes began to flash again, like the water surface blown by the wind, and said, "It's the sound of a person falling into the water."

Plop—

It was the sound of falling into the water.

When did Chu Xingyun raise fish? This fish tank was just a dusty decoration when he came here last time.

He was locked in the office by him, and He Cheng was not anxious and was not in a hurry to go out, because Chu Xingyun was really saying that as long as he dared to go out, he would not get a marriage certificate with him. In order not to let him find an excuse to go back on his word, He Cheng sat on the leather chair behind his desk as if he was gambled, and put a few newspapers on the corner of his desk and read them one by one. After reading several newspapers, he suddenly felt thirsty. So he picked up the black thermos cup that Chu Xingyun placed on the table and walked to the water dispenser to collect the water. Then he noticed that the fish tank next to the water dispenser had started to operate at some point. Several fish were swimming around inside, and coral and water plants were placed at the bottom of the tank, and he was dressed very beautifully.

Although he doesn't like water and hates all aquatic animals, he would rather watch fish than reading newspapers.

He stood in front of the fish tank with a thermos cup, looking at the several fish spinning in the water. One of them was particularly beautiful, with a more gorgeous tail, and a more agile figure paraded in the water.

His eyes followed the fish slowly swimming in the water, and his eyes became more and more focused and deeper. Unconsciously, he focused all his attention on the fish in the water. Gradually, he could almost sense the rhythm of the fish breathing with the gills, and the cold and stinging sensation of cold water applied to the eyes that would never close...

The guppies seemed to have noticed that they were being stared at for a long time, and their active figure suddenly stopped, swinging ninety degrees to the left, facing He Cheng who was standing outside the bathtub.

He Cheng looked at it and suddenly felt cold all over his body, as if he had been thrown into the water and turned into a fish in the water. At this moment, the fish that was watching him in the bathtub was him. They were all trapped in the water, looking at another self...

Suddenly, the fish tank made a strange noise, and the water surface kept trembling, causing layers of ripples. The guppies swam back and forth as if they were frightened. After swimming back and forth for two times, they suddenly rushed upstream to break through the water surface, jumped upwards and then fell to the bottom of the water with a "thump".

"Bang!"

The fish tank was broken, and the broken glass splashed on him. Several fish leaked out of the broken glass with the water, and the water filled the ground.

He Cheng wanted to retreat, trying to avoid the fish struggling and jumping on the ground without the water source, but his eyes turned dark and he fell down.

He did not lose consciousness. The office door was opened and Yang Kaitai called his name, and he could hear it, but he could not react, as if his soul had left his body and had swam around somewhere. He clearly felt that Yang Kaitai was trying to drag him up from the ground, and he also intended to cooperate, but he could not control his body. It was not until more than ten minutes later that the familiar feeling of weightlessness falling from a high place and the suffocation of being flooded by the water with his long-loving soul poured into his body. It was like... a dream.

Chu Xingyun reached out to hold the back of the chair, bent down and leaned close to him, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Who's the sound of falling into the water?"

He Cheng lowered his eyes, his pale lips as if they were covered with wax trembled slightly, "A child."

He gave the answer he least wanted to hear. Although he had already expected it, Chu Xingyun was still stunned for a moment, then forced himself to remain gentle and calm, wiped away a layer of cold and greasy sweat from He Cheng's forehead, and asked again: "Who? Is it you?"

Who would the sound of a child falling into the water? Why did he fall into the water? Is it He Cheng? That's why He Cheng hates water or even fears water?

He Cheng shook his head, closed his eyes as if he was extremely tired, and said, "I don't know."

As he said that, he paused for a moment, quietly opened his eyes and looked at Chu Xingyun and said, "But I know where to go to find the answer."

"where?"

“Hall 1, Peace Avenue.”

Jiang Ma returned to her hometown to visit her relatives. Hall No. 1 was empty inside and outside. The yard had already planted seasonal flowers and trees, so the yard was still rich and fragrant and unabashed.

Chu Xingyun opened the iron gate with the door card he always kept in his hand and walked into the courtyard where they lived for many years with He Cheng.

When he returned here today, Chu Xingyun was in a heavy and complicated mood. He once thought that the house he was very familiar with might hide some unknown secrets, which was forgotten in the corner of the depths of time with the past. Now they are looking for the truth when they are back here, and the witness of the truth may be this house.

But ‘it’ can’t tell them anything. ‘it’ is like an old man, as tolerant as the sea and as deep as the sea. It witnessed everything happening in this house with its own eyes. It knows everything good and bad, and it also digests everyone’s sorrow and joy.

He followed his aunt's nervousness and fear when he first arrived here, the anger and confusion when He Cheng returned here after being rescued, the sadness and reluctance when he packed his bags and left the admission notice, and the helplessness and nostalgia when He Cheng took over Swan City and moved out of this place.

The last person sent away from this house was He Cheng. After He Cheng left, the house was empty.

Suddenly, Chu Xingyun seemed to understand why when He Cheng confessed to him, he said that if he couldn't wait for him, he would move back here, drive everyone out, and live his life by guarding the house.

When he first heard it, he thought it was a childish crazy talk. Chu Xingyun had never thought about it seriously in the depths. Now when he came back here again, he realized that the pain and happiness he brought to He Cheng, and the pain and happiness he brought to him, all happened in this house, and it was buried into the center of the earth with the foundation. This house was no longer as simple as a residence for He Cheng. "It" was more like a witness, witnessing the process of their reunion, separation, reunion after separation, and ultimately no longer separation.

He Cheng was like this house. He used to welcome him, but then watched him leave, and later accepted his return, and now he stayed with him forever.

He Cheng's arms have been opening to him for a long time, never closed.

I haven't been so "sentimental" for a long time, and suddenly I felt a lot of emotion. Chu Xingyun looked at the red walls and white tiles in front of me for a moment, and waited for a gust of autumn wind to blow on his face with the rich fragrance of flowers, and penetrated into his nose, making him feel uncomfortable and sneezed, and then he came back to his senses.

He turned to look for He Cheng and saw He Cheng standing by the flower bed on the left side of the yard, holding his hands in his windbreaker pocket, his hair and the hem of his windbreaker fluttering in the undirected autumn wind. The background was a gorgeous rose field, shining in the sun.

He walked to He Cheng with a light step, and asked softly as if he was afraid of disturbing him, "What are you looking at?"

He Cheng's quiet eyes fell on the lushest among the roses and said, "There was a yellow swing there before, I've seen it."

What he said should be his childhood memories, and it happened before he arrived. During that time, he did not participate in He Cheng's memories, so he had no say and just asked: "When?"

“Long ago.”

He Cheng seemed to only treat him as a listener and did not intend to ask him to help find the answer. When he narrated these past events, he was casually speaking as if he was saying some irrelevant home-like words to him.

Chu Xingyun had just asked in detail when he saw him turn around and walk past him and head to the other side.

Many years ago, he was first awaited, and the first thing he was amazed was the swimming pool with sparkling water in front of the veranda on the east side of the yard.

He followed He Cheng to the pool, lowered his head to watch them thrown into the water, distorted with the shaking ripples.

In his memory, He Cheng had never swam in this swimming pool, and he had never even approached this swimming pool. He learned from the adults at home that He Cheng was afraid of water, but he never delved into the reason. Now it seems that the reason why He Cheng was afraid of water might be in this swimming pool.

The sound of a child falling into the water.

If the child is He Cheng, then "shui" is the swimming pool in front of you.

"...... Brother Xingyun, do you have paper?"

Maybe He Cheng himself didn't realize that whenever he was confused and helpless and needed some help and support in urgent need of some help and support, he would rely extremely on Chu Xingyun, and called him "Brother Xingyun" like he did when he was a child.

Chu Xingyun looked at him deeply, took out a page of a4 paper torn from the document from his jacket and handed it to him.

He Cheng took the paper, held it in his hand, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then folded the white paper in half and unfamiliar way, then folded it apart, folded it in half, and then took it apart again. After repeated this several times, the a4 paper was suddenly taken away by Chu Xingyun.

"What are you going to fold?"

Chu Xingyun asked.

He Cheng breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably and said, "Paper Boat."

Chu Xingyun was smoothing the paper marks he folded. He paused for a moment when he heard the movement of Yan. He didn't say anything, and began to orchestrate the paper boat as he spoke. Within a minute, he returned a paper boat to He Cheng.

He Cheng held the paper boat and looked at it calmly for a while. Then he squatted down and placed the paper boat on the water of the swimming pool. The paper boat was soon blown away by the wind, like a lonely sail drifting on the sea.

Chu Xingyun didn't know what the meaning of doing this was, and he was not in a hurry to ask questions. He just accompanied him to look at the boat on the water of the swimming pool for a while, and helped him as he stood up.

"Let's go to the house to check it out?"

Chu Xingyun asked.

He Cheng looked at the water surface as if he hadn't heard of it and was stunned for a while, then turned around and looked up at the house standing in the sun.

Chu Xingyun waited for a while, and saw that he was just looking at the house in a daze, and did not urge him to go to the house to take a look. As soon as he was about to leave the swimming pool, he saw He Cheng suddenly closed his eyes, as if he was pushed hard, and his feet lost their center of gravity, and his body leaned back straight...

With a thud, he fell into the swimming pool.

He Cheng fell into the water only for a moment, and it happened too suddenly. Chu Xingyun had no time to react and watched him fall into the water. The water surface of the swimming pool was filled with waves, pushing the paper boat on the water further away.

"He Cheng?!"

He Cheng did not lose consciousness. He was very awake. He opened his arms and lay at the bottom of the swimming pool with great relaxation. His body slowly rose and fell with the buoyancy of the water. He heard Chu Xingyun calling him, so he opened his eyes and looked up. He saw Chu Xingyun standing by the swimming pool, disturbed by the shaking water marks...

He frowned gently, and suddenly couldn't tell whether it was him or Chu Xingyun in the water, or whether they were both in the water, and Chu Xingyun was trapped in a deeper water prison.

As if he was saving him or asking him for help, He Cheng raised his arm to him in the water and stretched out his hand.
To be continued...