Chapter 8: Heavy Snow
Bai Yiman, who left the Zhou family, this time she did not drive the usual white Porsche 911, but drove an extremely low-key Camry, driving the car on the empty streets, taking off her mask and cap, her expression was a little down, like a child who has lost the most important toy.
Perhaps, like most people, she is also wondering what she is living for and what she is dying for.
This is a question that most people may need to spend their entire lives looking for, and she just hopes to find the answer in this moment, of course, there is no such simple thing in the world.
The cold wind blew her long hair, and she was like a lonely ghost, wandering among the lights of ten thousand homes, as if looking for something, and as if she was forgetting something.
The phone rang, she just glanced at the caller number, and silently chose to turn it off, she felt that there was no need to go to the family banquet that had long been impersonal, and that family banquet would not really welcome her.
Like a phoenix flying on a branch, what she has been doing is just survival in the cracks, she needs to put a face in front of Ma Wenwen, she needs to put a face in front of the Bai family, and she needs to put a face in front of the Zhou family, once upon a time she also needed to put a face in front of Lao Gao, maybe because there were so many faces that she was about to forget her true appearance.
And is the face now on her face real or false? Ironically, she is now unable to determine even the simplest of questions.
continued to drive, aimlessly, and finally the car stopped in the ancestral hall of the Bai family, she didn't know why she came here, maybe it was because this place was also her destination, so she wanted to get out of the car and walk into this inexplicable place that made people's backs chill.
On that new spiritual seat, the three words Bai Wenshan were impressively engraved, and she just stared at these three words, her face was complicated by a kind that no one could say.
"If you see me now, will you be jealous to the core?" she asked, but unfortunately, this empty ancestral hall would never give her an answer.
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The tallest building in Xicheng, she looked down at this bustling area, put down her mobile phone, and her expression was indifferent, as if she hadn't made a call just now that might affect the pattern of Xicheng.
Xue Monkey walked up to her at this time and whispered, "It's really an uneasy day. ”
"What's the matter? even you, a heartless outlaw, can't stand this loneliness?" said Ma gently and sarcastically.
Xue Monkey is face is bitter, perhaps because there are so many things that have happened this year, so that he is inexplicably a little touched by the scene on this day of the dividing line.
He knows exactly what he needs more as a survivor, but that doesn't mean he's as invincible as he imagined.
"I feel that some can't keep up with the development of this era, the changes in the rivers and lakes, although I don't want to admit that I am old, but no matter how I say it, I am more powerless than before. Xue Monkey sighed, and there was a rare bit of seriousness on his face with a hint of comedy.
From killing in the capital to Xicheng District, although he didn't let everyone remember his name, Xue Monkey can say extremely narcissistically that he is an important cog in the operation of the rivers and lakes.
"It's not that you're old, it's that this is an era of over-exertion, so you don't have to chase, because you can never catch up, all you can do is wait and see, quietly watch the passing in your own hands, although this sentence is too late for you, but this is growth. Ma said gently, she just put what she thought in her heart, on her own constraints, and forcibly put it on such a pathetic guy, no matter whether this person could bear it or not.
Xue Monkey smiled bitterly, the so-called back waves of the Yangtze River pushed the front waves, and the front waves were ruthlessly slapped to death on the beach, although he didn't want to be so selfless, but he still became the one who was photographed on the beach.
"Go out for a walk with me. Ma Wenrou put on a windbreaker and said, not giving Xue Monkey a chance to promise, so he left, his back looked very chic.
And Xue Monkey, who has never had the right to choose, can only bury his head behind Ma Wenrou.
The two went downstairs together and strolled down the pedestrian crossing downstairs of the *Fish Hotel, perhaps because it was past midnight, or perhaps because it was an extremely special day, and the street looked extraordinarily empty, but it gave people an extremely awkward feeling.
Ma Wenrou let out a hot breath, watching the hot air he exhaled freeze, and Xue Monkey, who was silently following her, suddenly said: "Isn't it a bit inappropriate to let the worm clean up the stall for you in the capital?"
"What's wrong?" Ma asked softly without thinking, as if he didn't care at all how much courage it took Xue Monkey to ask this question.
"She's a little too young, and she's a little rough. Xue Monkey also said directly without hesitation.
Ma Wenrou stopped, turned his head under the street lamp, and for a moment, Xue Monkey, who had too many worries in his heart, was stunned, and looked at the face as clear as crystal, beautiful like a carved portrait.
This made Xue Monkey feel inferior for a while, how could he be able to appreciate such a scene.
"She will become the second, I have absolute confidence in her, she is not you, she still has a choice, you will never have any more variables in this life, you can show off your power behind me, it can be regarded as the end of this road in the rivers and lakes, what do you want?" she squinted slightly and smiled, that look, where does it seem like a kind of irony, as if it is a kind of appreciation that is convinced.
Perhaps because of the fact that he had been by Ma Wenrou's side for many years, Xue Monkey had already cultivated his face to the thickness of a city wall, so in the face of this undisguised contempt, he said with a relaxed face: "This is also a bit ruthless. ”
If you don't add cold words, if you send snow in the snow, this woman is not Ma Gentle, but although there are countless people in this river and lake who want this woman to go to hell, Xue Monkey is the only thing that is certain, the name Ma Gentle is not sarcastic, maybe the harsh and piercing eyes are her real gentleness.
Of course, Xue Monkey only dared to mumble these words in his heart, he knew that if he said it, he would definitely be eaten alive by Ma Wenrou.
Ma gently turned around, turned his back to Xue Monkey, looked at the empty street, and muttered: "People, you should be ruthless to yourself, a little more ruthless, otherwise, in the future, there will be no such opportunity, for an unprepared person, no matter how big the pie falls on his head, he can't grasp it." ”
Xue Monkey was silent, he knew who Ma Gentle was talking about, he stepped forward cautiously, and at this time, the sky was scattered with crystal snowflakes for a while, and he was stupid for a while.
A pair of slender, white hands reached into the air to catch the fluttering snowflakes, and she watched as the snowflakes slowly melted in her hands and became small drops of water.
Maybe it's because of the incessant bombardment, and the sky is in tears because of it.
She thought like this, raised her head, the fireworks had gradually disappeared, only the long snowflakes, falling on her face, in such a river and lake, only this coldness, is real, so real that people can not find more real things to replace.
Someone has been chasing love all her life, someone has been chasing freedom all her life, some people have been chasing truth all her life, some people have been chasing depravity all her life, and what is she looking for? In the first twenty years, she pursued ethereal love, and then the world gave her a fall, and after twenty years and another ten years, she was looking for money, but the world gave her a piece of hypocrisy.
Isn't it time for her to pursue the truth? She smiled wryly and shook her head, thinking it was a little ridiculous, because the world would not give her that kind of truth, so this truth needed her to create.
"Xue Monkey, in the next few years, I may not recover, you better know in your heart, it's too late to leave me now. Ma Wenrou turned her back to Xue Monkey and said, she thought that no one in this world knew Ma Wenrou better than Xue Monkey in the next ten years, even she couldn't do it herself.
"I still owe you two gambling contracts, I'm not the kind of person who doesn't pay back the money, and according to you, I'm such a hopeless guy, and I can be regarded as the end of this job. Xue Monkey said, he knew that Ma Wen, who seemed to be calm now, had made up his mind.
Ma smiled bitterly, thinking that she already knew in her heart that Xue Monkey would answer like this, and she continued: "In the future, you won't be able to get out of this game. ”
"Now I'm going to be able to get out of this game, and I've never wanted to get out of this game. Xue Monkey said, tightening his collar, although the winter in Xicheng is not as cold as the capital, it still gives people a feeling of freezing into their bones.
"It's a piece of wood. Ma scolded with a gentle smile.
"Now I'm curious to know, if you really lose, lose all this, will you regret making that decision? Xue Monkey finally asked.
She was much calmer than Xue Monkey imagined, and replied very indifferently: "If you had known me thirteen years ago, you wouldn't have said such a thing, I have come to such a step, but I am not moving forward for regret." ”
Xue Monkey's expression was still, as if something was brewing, he knew that this might be something that would cost him his life, but he still couldn't help but speak: "What kind of past is that?"
It's very quiet, so quiet that the monkeys can hear their own pounding heartbeats.
"You wouldn't want to know, and you shouldn't know, that the day you knew it was the day I closed the curtain. ”