The end of Act III (Prelude to Kawabata Castle).
Summer 2004.
The sun was setting, Lai Xiaochuan was riding a car, and the handlebar was hung with pork bought from Donnie Yen's pig farm, and the pork was dangling golden in the sunset.
The bicycle drove into the gate of Lai Xiaochuan's house, Lai Xiaochuan landed on the ground, opened the mailbox, took out a letter from it, carried pork in one hand, and entered the house with the letter in the other.
Lai Xiaochuan put the pork on the table, and when he looked up, he saw his grandmother sitting on a stool picking vegetables, with a small piece of confetti smaller than a fingernail on her right eye.
Lai Xiaochuan stared at his grandmother's eyes with a strange look and asked, "Grandma...... What's wrong with you?" (Japanese)
Grandma frowned and said while picking vegetables: "All day long, my right eye has been jumping and jumping, as if it is ...... Something bad!" (Japanese)
Grandma put the vegetable basket on the table, hooked the hemp rope on the pork with her fingers, lifted the pork on the table, got up and walked to the kitchen.
"Yi Ming wrote to me. (Japanese) Lai Xiaochuan shook the letter in his hand, turned around and entered the house.
Grandma looked back at Lai Xiaochuan who walked into the house, twisted her brows, and the white confetti on her eyelids fell, she caught the confetti with her backhand with the palm of her hand, pinched the confetti and licked it on the side of her mouth, and stuck to her eyelids again by the stickiness of the saliva.
Lai Xiaochuan, who was sitting in the room, read the letter written by Yi Ming, took out the letter paper and pen and wrote angrily, the electric fan shook its round iron grid head, and leisurely blew the open curtains and the broken hair on the back of Lai Xiaochuan's erect neck. She turned the pen in her right hand, stared at the red sky printed by the sunset outside the window, thought about it and lowered her head and wrote: "Hello!
Are you okay in Taiwan? You told me that the food in Taiwan's snack street is delicious, and I hope to have a chance to go there. Although the weather in Xingxiang is very hot at this time, but at night, the cool breeze will still blow through every house, me, Donnie Yen and Fang Yuan have all been admitted to the city's key high schools, and the admission notices have been received. You also have a high school there......
said that a few months ago, not long after Lai Xiaochuan rescued Yi Ming, who was beaten miserably by two dog thieves, Yi Ming's family also came to two people, one old and one young.
The old one, who looks like he is in his seventies, is very well-dressed, and the gold watch in his left hand is wrapped around his wrist. Her gray hair is neatly combed, and although her face is wrinkled, she seems to be well-maintained and looks very energetic.
Young, not tall, about forty years old, very gentle, wearing a pair of gold-framed eyes.
Lai Xiaochuan listened to the gossip of the neighborhood and learned that the two were from Taiwan and were in the fabric business, and the business was very large. The old man is Mrs. Huang's second brother, because he was a henchman of the national army when he was young, and after fleeing to Taiwan by plane with the Kuomintang, he never came back.
Yi Ming came to Lai Xiaochuan before leaving, and the two of them stood at the door of Lai Xiaochuan's house, and Lai Xiaochuan asked him when he would go to class.
Yi Ming, who had no scars on his face, kept his head down, and after the two of them were silent for a long time, Yi Ming spit out two sentences from his mouth and said, "I'm leaving tomorrow, I'll talk to you!"
Lai Xiaochuan had long known the details in the mouths of his neighbors, so he was not surprised, so he asked, "When will you come back?"
"I'm not coming back!"
Lai Xiaochuan didn't know how to answer, but let out an 'um' sound from his throat to answer his affirmative tone.
The two stood motionless, and they didn't know how to end their parting.
Lai Xiaochuan glanced at Yi Ming and said, "I know!"
Yi Ming also said "um" and said to Lai Xiaochuan in a very low tone: "That...... I'm gone, and there's ...... Thank you!"
"No thanks!" Lai replied.
"I'll write to you, you remember to reply. ”
Lai Xiaochuan: "Okay! I will definitely reply, as long as you don't forget to write to me." ”
Yi Ming finally raised his eyes and looked at Lai Xiaochuan, nodded and replied, "I won't forget!"
The two maintained a small exchange of letters like this, and not long after, the letters also came to an abrupt end with Lai Xiaochuan's crime.
Lai Xiaochuan was in a happy mood before committing the crime, he was admitted to a key high school, he had letters from people he liked, he had good friends by his side, and his grandmother who loved him, and his life was what he loved.
That day, Lai Xiaochuan wore a wide-brimmed hat and rode a bicycle into Donnie Yen's farm. She put her bicycle in the yard, and just after taking two steps, she saw Donnie Yen standing on a pigsty more than a meter high. He stretched out his hand and pulled down a poplar branch, then flicked the branch boredly, and squatted on the cement pigsty and looked at the eating pig with a sad face.
"Donnie Yen, do pigs still need you to supervise their eating?"
He didn't pay attention to Lai Xiaochuan, still shaking the branches and scratching the pig's fat back.
Lai Xiaochuan walked up to him and looked up.
"Yi Ming wrote to me. ”
"Mind my!" Donnie replied.
"Are you out of love?" Lai asked.
"My heart is so uncomfortable, Lai Xiaochuan, did you say she changed her mind?"
Lai Xiaochuan frowned, and he didn't know how to answer, so he said, "Maybe...... Let's do it!"
"I'm going to buy pork. After speaking, he walked to the depths of the courtyard of Donnie Yen's house.
Donnie Yen, who was standing on the pigsty, turned around and shouted to Lai Xiaochuan: "Xiaolai, do me a favor!"
Lai Xiaochuan didn't reply: "Don't help!"
Donnie Yen shouted loudly: "It's a paid help!"
After hearing the word 'paid', Lai Xiaochuan slowly stopped, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously grinned.
Donnie Yen took Lai Xiaochuan to the county seat to cover for himself, for their family, Lai Xiaochuan is a model of a good student, so as long as he goes out with Lai Xiaochuan, no matter where he goes, Uncle Zhen and Aunt Zhen seem to feel safe.
Saying that, the two went to the county seat early the next morning, Donnie Yen and Lai Xiaochuan, who was wearing a wide-brimmed hat, walked through the bustling streets and took a taxi, which stopped outside several residential areas that had not yet been fully completed.
Lai Xiaochuan: "You brought me here to find your girlfriend?"
Donnie Yen looked around and replied, "Just wait here." ”
At this time, a boy with a baseball cap walked over with a sexy girl with a bells and whistles parasol in his arms.
Donnie Yen stepped forward and pulled the sexy girl and said, "You come with me!"
The girl replied in annoyance: "I said, we broke up, don't bother each other!"
Donnie Yen: "You can't just say it, right? You don't say why?" Donnie Yen said, pulling the girl to leave.
Lai Xiaochuan stood by and watched the two of them pull around, and he didn't know what to do.
The boy with a baseball cap turned the brim of the baseball cap back, reached out and knocked off Donnie Yen's hand, who was holding the woman in his arms, and tilted his head to look at Donnie Yen.
Donnie Yen, who was angry, raised his hand and pushed the baseball cap boy's chest, the baseball cap boy staggered back, the boy sneered, and after "spitting" to the side, before Donnie Yen could react, he punched Donnie Yen in the face.
The sexy girl with an umbrella stood next to her with her hips twisted, took out a cigarette from her bag, lit the cigarette holder on the cigarette case and lit the fire with a lighter, took a puff, she raised her head and spit out a puff of green cigarettes, and looked at Donnie Yen and the baseball boy in front of her.
Lai Xiaochuan was very anxious, standing next to him and taking a step to the left and a step back to the right. She looked at Donnie Yen, who was not beaten, and was soon beaten by the boy in a baseball cap and got a nosebleed.
Lai Xiaochuan pounced on the baseball cap boy with his bare hands, and the baseball cap boy saw Lai Xiaochuan pounce on him without attack, raised a kick, and kicked Lai Xiaochuan who was facing him far away. He threw the hat on his head to the ground angrily, and Lai Xiaochuan sat on the ground, holding his stomach hideously. Donnie Yen, whose face was blue and purple, looked at Lai Xiaochuan sitting on the ground holding his stomach, and he fought with the baseball cap again. After two or three strokes, the boy with a baseball bat sat on Donnie Yen's body, picked up his arms, punched left and right, and began to hit Donnie Yen in the face.
After smoking two cigarettes, the sexy girl next to her walked into the unfinished community with an umbrella and twisting her ass.
"Don't let them go!" Lai Xiaochuan shouted.
Lai Xiaochuan looked at Donnie Yen, who was dying after being beaten, the sweat and blood on his face mixed together, and slowly stayed along his cheeks, the corners of his mouth, and the corners of his eyes.
The boy in the baseball cap riding on Donnie Yen also gasped for breath, sweat running down the back of his head to the shoulder blades in the back of his back.
After Lai Xiaochuan shook his head and looked around on the ground, the waste wooden sticks piled up next to the wall appeared in Lai Xiaochuan's sight, she took one from the pile of wooden sticks, held the wooden stick with both hands and walked towards the boy in the baseball cap, Lai Xiaochuan closed his eyes and slammed it on the boy's head.
The boy in the baseball cap who was still waving his arms stopped his movements in an instant, turned his head to look at Lai Xiaochuan, he was bloodshot, and his eyeballs seemed to be about to pop out, staring at Lai Xiaochuan deadly.
Lai Xiaochuan was frightened and immediately let go of his hands holding the wooden stick, and the wooden stick was nailed to the head of the boy in the baseball cap without moving.
The boy in the baseball cap slowly got up with a wooden stick like a corpse, and walked towards Lai Xiaochuan with difficult steps like a machine.
Lai Xiaochuan retreated in panic, the baseball cap boy hadn't taken the second step, he fell to the ground in a daze, and Lai Xiaochuan, who was so frightened that his face was gray, sat down on the ground heavily, and the sweat on his face wrapped the hair on his face and kept dripping on the dirt road.
Donnie Yen looked at the boy who fell to the ground, and then looked at Lai Xiaochuan.
Lai Xiaochuan looked at the part of the wooden stick nailed to his head, and blood slowly oozed out from the edges.
The two of them looked at the wooden stick attached to the human head like a hen, and the sun shone on a dead man and two living people with dead hearts.
It didn't take long for police cars and ambulances to arrive.
The body was stabbed by several paramedics and ambulances were taken to the hospital for rescue by several medical staff, and Lai Xiaochuan and Donnie Yen were also taken away by three or four policemen with serious looks.