June 12, 2017.

It's been raining for a long time.

Cheng Yun walked under the dark sky with an umbrella, and there was a tall girl next to him, and the two were silent.

The hustle and bustle of the streets, the sound of the rain and the honking of horns, the horns of shopping mall promotions, and the friction between the tires and the ground when the vehicle brakes, but they can't make a little wave in their hearts.

The two walked through the bustling streets, through the alleys where only the sound of rain remained, and finally walked into a rather old neighborhood, stopping at the door of a unit in a building.

"You go back, I won't go back yet. Cheng Yun held an umbrella to let her walk in the door, but she stopped, paused, and said, "There is still a little bit of goods to be delivered to the hotel today, and people have been waiting for two days." ”

There was no emotion on the girl's cold and delicate face, but her eyes were a little red and swollen, staring at him, nodding, and then lightly spit out a word, her voice was a little hoarse-

"Good. ”

"Do you have the key?"

"Brought it. ”

"That's good. Cheng Yun held the umbrella and turned to leave.

The girl stood inside the door and watched his back, still expressionless, until he was far away, and then continued to turn and enter the building.

A small umbrella can't cover two people, let alone the wind is manic. In order to make Cheng Yan less rainy, Cheng Yun wet most of his body, but in this June day, it was only a little cold at most, and he didn't feel cold at all.

On June 8, seventeen-year-old Cheng Yan finished the college entrance examination, which is good news for the whole family-

With her unnatural results, it is not a difficult thing to be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University. No matter how bad it is, like Cheng Yun at the beginning, he can be admitted to Yizhou University in Jinguan City, that is, the university where Cheng Yun and Cheng Yan's parents work.

After joy comes sorrow.

On June 9, Cheng Yun and Cheng Yan's parents had a car accident when they went out to buy bay window mats, the perpetrator was a large truck, the driver was tired driving, did not brake the car in the rain, and four people died on the spot. Cheng Yun's parents did not bear the brunt, but they were knocked into a solid body, and the body was almost flattened.

A bolt from the blue!

But the fact does not change by anyone's will, it has already happened and can never be reversed. From the initial disbelief to extreme grief, Cheng Yun and Cheng Yan finally accepted it, and also completed part of the procedures of the traffic accident and the cremation and funeral with the help of their relatives and parents and colleagues.

Walking to the door of the community, Cheng Yun stopped a taxi, put away the umbrella and shook the water, sat in, and then rubbed his stiff face fiercely. His eyes were bloodshot and sour.

Soon, the taxi stopped under a three-story building next to Yizhou University, and from the window of the car it was faintly visible that the building was hanging a brand-new hotel signboard -

Anju Guesthouse.

Cheng Yun's mother's name is An Lan, and the hotel name takes her surname. His father's name is Cheng Jianye, and he lives and works in peace and contentment.

The hotel was recently invested by Cheng Yun's parents, and the decoration of most of the rooms has ended, and the supporting facilities are in place, only some scattered decorative ornaments and the like, which can be said to be open for business immediately. The remaining rooms are not decorated, and Cheng Yun's parents' plan is to make the remaining rooms into bed rooms, which are aimed at some travelers with limited economic conditions who need to stay in the vicinity of the university town for a period of time because of exams and business trips, and compete with the daily rental houses around the school.

But then came the bad news.

There was a van parked in front of the hotel, the back seat was dismantled, and it was full of goods. In the driver's seat and in the co-pilot sat a young man, waiting boredly, with a cigarette in his hand.

Cheng Yun, who was wet, said sorry to the taxi driver, and then got out of the car and walked to the van to say hello to the two.

The accident of Cheng Yun's parents delayed the delivery of this batch of goods for two days, and both of them knew about it, and there was no impatience in their tones, so they extinguished the cigarette, comforted Cheng Yun twice, and helped him move all the goods upstairs by the way. When Cheng Yun settled the payment, the two went downstairs and drove in the rain.

Standing at the top of the stairs, looking at the small coffee table, bed sheets and quilt covers and a bookcase that took up a lot of space, Cheng Yun took a deep breath and began to move.

He hadn't closed his eyes much for three days, but there would be a lot of goods coming in the past two days, and he couldn't rest.

The helplessness of life is that you have to go on no matter what, unless you are cowardly enough to choose to end. So Cheng Yun chose to take over the unfinished hotel, continue to complete the decoration, and then according to what Cheng Jianye and An Lan thought, open it before the college entrance examination scores came out, and take advantage of the fact that many high school graduates will go to Yizhou University under the leadership of their parents to see the future school and earn him a sum of money first.

It just so happened that he had also graduated and it was time to find a way out.

In the afternoon, he put everything in its place and took a taxi back, and finally squinted.

When he woke up the next morning, he was about to start dealing with the culprit and the insurance claims.

Cheng Yan is not yet an adult, but he also got up early, and he has been following him expressionlessly after washing, pretending to be strong and mature.

There was nothing to investigate at the scene, and the traffic management department quickly issued a road traffic accident certificate, and the other party was of course fully responsible. The death compensation, funeral expenses, Cheng Yan's child support and mental damages, plus many miscellaneous compensations, totaled less than 1.5 million.

Large truck drivers often don't cut the door on insurance, and with their life savings, they can afford to lose the money. And the family of the perpetrator also sold the house and offered to increase the compensation, hoping to obtain a letter of understanding from Cheng Yun and Cheng Yan, and the bargaining chip was increased from 100,000 to 200,000, just hoping to increase the chance of reducing the bastard's sentence in court.

Cheng Yan looked indifferent, and Cheng Yun didn't agree.

Cheng Yun's parents have always bought personal accident insurance, and the total compensation for the two of them is more than one million.

Their lives were exchanged for less than three million.

In fact, a university professor is an idle errand, Cheng Yun's parents have gone from taking on private jobs at the beginning, to being generous in their second side hustle, from the cram school that was all the rage back then to the hotel they have just invested in, and the average annual income in the past ten years has been nearly one million. Obviously, no amount of money can make up for the pain in Cheng Yun and Cheng Yan's hearts, especially Cheng Yan, who has lost his parents before he is a minor.

15th.

The wife of the driver who caused the accident has been grinding the two brothers and sisters for three days, and Cheng Yan is still indifferent and has hardly gone out.

But Cheng Yun was a little shaken, when he saw the emaciated woman like them bothering to coax the two crying children. The car accident had already destroyed two families, and the woman and the two children she was holding were the third.

Of course, this car accident is the fault of that bastard, and in Cheng Yun's eyes, he is a murderer, but do these two children need to add another sacrifice to this disaster?

On the evening of the 16th, he still wrote a letter of understanding.

The division of the estate is also calm. Cheng Yun's grandparents died early, but they still had a grandfather, but the old man waved his hand and said that he didn't want anything, and all the property was left to the brothers and sisters, so that they could discuss it themselves.

Because Cheng Yan is still a minor and still in school, the two houses in the family were left to her, one with a market value of nearly three million and the other with a market value of about one million. Cheng Yun inherited the hotel that invested nearly 3 million and the million or so funds deposited by Cheng Yun's parents in the bank, and he also had to serve as Cheng Yan's guardian to provide her with all the tuition and living expenses during college.

When they sorted everything out, the court judgment was almost down, and the compensation was received one after another, and the two siblings divided it equally as part of the estate. But Cheng Yun's part of the cigarette was kept by Cheng Yun.

At home near the university town, Cheng Yun and Cheng Yan were eating dinner silently, no one spoke, and the atmosphere was a little gloomy.

Twelve days have passed since that incident, and the two siblings look much better than when they had just finished the funeral, but the blow to their hearts cannot be relieved for the time being.

Cheng Yun finished eating, put down his chopsticks, and broke the silence with a loud voice: "It's time for the college entrance examination results tomorrow, right?"

Cheng Yan raised his eyes and glanced at him, hummed without being salty, lowered his head and continued to eat.

Cheng Yun was a little speechless and didn't know how to answer.

At this time, Cheng Yan raised his head again, and asked with a cold attitude: "Your hotel is almost time to open, right?"

"Almost, the day after tomorrow it will officially open. Cheng Yun said, "I'll go over again tonight, deal with some things at the end, check again, and if there is a problem, it will be solved tomorrow." ”

"Well, I'll order you a flower basket to send over when the time comes. ”

"......" Cheng Yun took out two hundred yuan from his pocket and handed it over, "The money to buy a flower basket." ”

Cheng Yan lowered his head and shaved rice, and quietly reached out and took the money, ignoring Cheng Yun.

"Then I'll go, you finish eating and wash the dishes. Squeeze less dish soap. Cheng Yun said, stood up and walked out. Until he went out and closed the door, he didn't get a response from Cheng Yan.

Predictable.

The hotel is very close to the small north gate of Yizhou University, about ten minutes' walk, at this time the hotel is completely ready except for the rooms that are ready to be used as hostels have not been officially renovated. The façade on the ground floor is also brand new and fully equipped.

Cheng Yun first checked the equipment at the counter, turned on the computer, and opened the background pages of various online group buying and travel platforms to see if the store was approved.

Then, he went upstairs to inspect the room one by one, including all the electrical equipment and sofa bed cabinets.

He became financially independent in his freshman year by starting his own business, and knows better than anyone else the value of prudence.

Suddenly, he heard a noise in the warehouse at the top of the staircase—

Click......

The sound was very soft, as if someone was tearing paper.

Cheng Yun immediately frowned.

Although this building is a few years old, it has just been renovated, so there won't be rats so soon, right?

Cheng Yun shook his head, feeling that it was not a good sign, and turned around and walked towards the warehouse next to him.

With a click, he opened the door and turned on the light by the way.

Inside the warehouse are neatly folded sheets, quilt covers and towels, and disposable toiletries are placed in boxes on the other side, which is really difficult to find if a mouse enters this environment, but it must also be found.

The warehouse lights were not as bright as the guest rooms, and they were a little dim, at least Cheng Yun didn't notice anything abnormal, and he didn't see any rats or anything like that.

It's tricky.

Just as he was about to take a closer look, he suddenly heard another sound—

Click!!

It was much louder than what I had heard next door, as if someone had torn the wall apart.

Cheng Yun turned his head and suddenly widened his eyes.

The wall is cracked!