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“You can go on, if you want,” he said when Zhou Zishu stopped for breath. “Scold and punish me for seven years, then I will scold you for the next seven, and then we’ll have to find something else to do.”
The thought of years took any other words out of his mouth. Zhou Zishu had gotten used to measuring time in thimblefuls. A New Year’s day, a drift of peach blossoms blown off the trees: each one, perhaps, the last he would see. There wasn’t a container in his mind big enough to hold years, decades, centuries.
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He kept talking, rapid and harsh, sparing no details. Zhou Zishu concentrated on breathing evenly, on letting the rage pass through him. If he focused and held it, it might ignite the mountaintop, but that was no use to anyone, now.
“I killed them,” said Wen Kexing, half under his breath. “I killed every one of them. Why is it still…” His voice was shaking. The hands at Zhou Zishu’s back trembled. Zhou Zishu wanted desperately to turn around.
“Lao Wen,” he said after a few seconds of silence. “Shidi. Will you come sit closer to me? I won’t look, if you don’t want me to.”
He held his breath, then closed his eyes as Wen Kexing began to move. He could have cried with relief to feel Wen Kexing settle against his chest, heavy and warm, still shaking. Zhou Zishu embraced him and then thought, he might feel trapped. He settled his arms uneasily at his sides, but Wen Kexing grabbed them and pulled them back around himself. Zhou Zishu held him close.
“If I tell you all of them,” Wen Kexing said, “will they leave me alone?”
“I don’t know.”
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