Chapter 62: Before Leaving Beijing (II)
"Little Four, are you peaceful when you leave?"
"I didn't suffer any sin, and it passed at once. β
"It's good, it's too painful for him to live, now to accompany his parents and take care of him, he won't be a lonely ghost. β
"Hey......"
Zhong Yuemin and Li Kuiyong stood at the door of the crematorium, waiting for Xiao Si's ashes to be sent out, while Zhou Changli and Sanyan stood beside them in a daze, their tears and snot frozen into ice slag.
Zhong Yuemin sighed in his hand and asked Li Kuiyong, "Is there any smoke?"
"My dad quit when he got sick, why did you smoke too?"
"I feel uncomfortable. β
"Brother Yuemin, give!" Zhou Changli handed the cigarette to Zhong Yuemin.
"Thank you. Zhong Yuemin lit a cigarette, "You picked up the little four?"
"I broke up with you that day, so I'll pick him up. Zhou Changli paused for a moment and continued: "He is my younger brother and helped me escape a life, I can't leave him alone." β
"Don't blame yourself, this is Xiaosi's own choice, maybe he will live a happy life in another world. β
"Yes, he's had a hard time, and he's been dead for a hundred. Zhou Changli also lit a cigarette, smoking too hard and choking himself to the point of coughing.
"But when I was guarding him last night, I always felt that I was the one who should die, and the fourth child died for me. Zhou Changli finally stopped coughing, and his eyes overflowed with tears.
Zhong Yuemin was a little creepy, Zhou Changli was the first person to change his fate, but he still felt the hint of fate.
Li Kuiyong persuaded: "Since you feel that Xiaosi has exchanged your life for your life, you should cherish your life more, so live well." β
"When I was in prison, I wondered how I ended up like that. At first, I was purely helping my friends, but then I became famous, and there were people holding me everywhere, and I liked this kind of life of doing whatever I wanted, and then I found that the whole society was also a mess, and no one cared about it at all, so I was even more unscrupulous. β
Zhou Changli threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, "In the past two years, my life has been better than that of the previous ten years, I have been hugging each other, I have no money, I will find the Buddha to make offerings, I will rob if I have no clothes to wear, and if I am bored, I will find a lesson that is not pleasing to the eye, I am happy and forget what my surname is." β
"And now?" Zhong Yuemin asked.
"When the gunshot rang out, I didn't think about the happy days before at all, I just thought about the days with you and Brother Kui Yong in the Mao Group, and the days with Su Da, I was happy, just like in a dream. β
"We're not dead yet, and the days ahead are still long. What are you going to do?"
"There is a group of people who are going to go to Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province to join the queue, and Sanyan and I signed up to plant rubber trees there. β
Li Kuiyong nodded and said: "It's good, the two of them have a care, Yuemin is going to go to northern Shaanxi, and I am going to go with him to be a farmer who repairs the earth." β
"How's your Suda?" Zhong Yuemin asked
"Gone, back to her own country. β
"Didn't you leave you any words?"
She asked her friend Xia Li to leave me a letter, asking me not to look for her and live a good life. β
Li Kuiyong said: "This girl is quite ruthless, she said she would leave." β
"Brother Kuiyong, it's not Suda's fault, it's my fault, she agreed to return to China in order for his father to save me, and I'm sorry for her. β
"There's this story in the middleΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
"Han Qiming's family is here to pick it up!" shouted the crematorium staff holding a box.
Several people terminated the conversation, and quickly thanked the master, Zhou Changli took Xiao Si and held it firmly in his hand.
"Little Four, I'm taking you home!" Zhou Changli said softly.
Zhou Changli turned around and said to Zhong Yuemin and Li Kuiyong: "Brother Yuemin, Brother Kuiyong, you go back first, I will send Xiaosi to be buried with his parents and reunite their family." β
"Cheng, you and the three eyes go. β
On the way back, Zhong Yuemin and Li Kuiyong rode side by side.
"I didn't expect Changli to change so much after he died!" Li Kuiyong sighed.
"I'm afraid it's not that easy. Zhong Yuemin said thoughtfully.
"What do you say?" Li Kuiyong wondered.
Zhong Yuemin sorted out his thoughts, "He chose Yunnan without going anywhere, and I heard that there are many educated youths who have crossed the border to join the guerrillas. β
"You mean, Zhou Changli plans to do the same?"
"It's very likely, but it's more likely to sneak across the border to find Suda. β
Li Kuiyong thought for a moment and squeezed the brakes suddenly: "Damn, it's really possible for this kid to do this, no, I'll go and talk to him." β
"Forget it, that's what we guessed. Besides, it's not that you don't know Changli, and no one can pull back what he has decided. β
"Then we don't care about anything?"
Zhong Yuemin said with a smile: "I can't imagine what Zhou Changli will look like repairing the earth, and going abroad may not be a way for him." β
"HeyΒ·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·" Li Kuiyong sighed, "Let him go, I hope he goes well, don't be reckless." β
The two men continued to ride.
"Are you really going to go to northern Shaanxi with me!" Zhong Yuemin asked.
Li Kuiyong said helplessly: "No way, my eldest brother and I are adults, and there is no allowance in the factory, where can the family afford our two boys, we can only go to the queue, at least the state still has ration subsidies." β
"Hehe, maybe we can get a place, Zheng Tong also went, and the Mao group is now in northern Shaanxi again. Zhong Yuemin said happily.
"Although we are not from the same school, we are all from Beijing after all, and the possibility of being assigned to one place is quite high. Li Kuiyong was also very happy.
When Zhong Yuemin and Zheng Tong arrived at the registration point in the countryside, the staff didn't say a word of nonsense, asked them to sign it, and sent them a notice.
When he came out after completing the formalities, Zheng Tong was still a little stunned, "The fuck is ready for us to cut the line, and there is no review." β
"Alright, stop grinding, go home and pack your things, and remember to bring more money and food stamps. β
"Didn't you say there was a ration subsidy? What kind of food stamps do you bring?"
Zhong Yuemin smiled meaningfully: "When did I fool you, just do it." β
"Okay, listen to you, but my family is not rich!"
"Aren't there a few who haven't been there!" Zhong Yuemin said with a smile.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, or your brain is spinning fast, Yuan Jun should have some money from selling bottles last time, let him Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·Β·"
"What bottle? You sold Yuan Jun's bottle?" Zhong Yuemin said in horror.
Zheng Tong was stunned: "Yes, how do you know?"
"Don't care so much! Loser, how much did you sell for?" Zhong Yuemin couldn't hold back his anger.
"It's sold for two hundred, it's a lot!" Zheng Tong retorted.
"Two hundred, why don't you give it to someone else?"
"What's wrong? Don't hit me, are you crazy!"
"I've been mad at you!"