It was time to go to work, and the people on Tulip Road were starting to get hurried again, and I saw some children standing on the edge of the cold drink shop with their final exams approaching. One of the children squatted on the ground, holding a cylindrical popsicle in one hand and a net bag containing two salted duck eggs in the other, which together became the number 100.

His mouth was full of thoughts, and when I got close to him, I realized that he was engaged in feudal superstition, and he hoped that in this way, he would bless himself with a perfect score in the final exam, and then have a pleasant summer vacation.

I saw a couple again, they were waiting for today's breakfast at the Wutong Hotel, while discussing how to spend the 100th anniversary of their acquaintance in the evening, the young man Jian yì went to Pingjiang Road in Suzhou after work to listen to the comments and eat snacks, and the girl gave him a happy hug and kiss.

The last thing that walked past me was a couple who were already very old, laughing at the child who was engaged in feudal superstition, and discussing that after the summer vacation began, they would also go to Xuzhou to see their naughty little grandson.

Yes, on this path, everyone is creating happiness for their limited life in different ways. But how do I fit in with this seemingly harmonious society and the people who make it up? At this moment, my shadow looks so depressed, not to mention the flesh and blood that have long been numb!

I couldn't lift my head, and the sun stabbed my bare shoulders a little painfully.

I finally reached the downstairs of the piano shop, where the fire had been so great that a plane tree planted in front of the door had been affected, and the dry branches were covered with charred leaves, and there was still a bad smell in the air.

"Jiang Qiao, turn off your mobile phone, and don't reply to your messages, I've been looking for you all night, and the house is now burned down like this, you have to give me an explanation what!"

Looking at the extremely excited landlord, I remembered the last bit of peace when I was with Xiao Ai last night. It's not that I turned off my phone, it's just that it's dead, and I never want to run away from responsibility.

I said to the landlord, "You go to a professional and fix the damage to the house first, and I won't lose a penny." ”

The landlord grabbed my clothes, his expression became more and more excited, and his words suddenly went out of control, and he scolded: "You are such a broom star, I should not rent the house to you...... Our family all lives on this house, and now it is burned like this, what do you want our family to do? …… How capable are you Jiangqiao, who in the neighborhood doesn't know, the piano store is now burned, you yourself owe a lot of debt, what do you pay back my house? “

Silence is the state that I have become accustomed to since this incident, and I have a sense of depravity in his scolding, and I just want to be quiet for a while.

My silence irritated the landlord even more, so I used even more ugly words to force me to compensate him a sum of money now, I think he was crazy, and even let me lose money without determining the damage, on what basis should I compensate?

I'm also mad, suffering from the madness of silence, and no matter how much he stimulates me, I don't get angry, like a body without a soul, numb and hopeless!

The landlord has completely no control over his feelings, and his words are even more ugly, and everyone loves to see this kind of excitement. Soon, we were surrounded by a lot of people, both from the neighborhood to passers-by we had never seen before.

Just when the landlord couldn't control his feelings more and more, a familiar figure pushed away the landlord who was entangled with me with all his strength, and then said to the landlord in a violent voice: "Please speak with respect, what is a broom star, this matter can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, what does it have to do with Jiangqiao?" …… If you don't trust Jiang Qiao, then the compensation money, you think it's okay for me Chen Yi to speak, right? “

Under the scorching summer sun, Chen Yi wore a white dress, blocking in front of me, like a huge tree, covering me under her branches, preventing me from seeing this world that made me feel sad.

Chen Yi's assurance calmed the landlord's feelings a little, he looked at me, then looked at Chen Yi and said, "You said that you are talking about this matter, you have to give me a certificate first...... Anyway, I don't believe Jiang Qiao, and I can't get used to his appearance of a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water! “

Chen Yi frowned and replied: "What I said, the neighbors here have heard it, everyone has been neighbors for so long, I believe that I, Chen Yi, still have some reputation in everyone's eyes...... The loss of the house is borne by me, Chen Yi. However, the person who appraises the loss, we must find one for each of us, if the difference between the two sides is not large, your appraisal shall prevail, if the difference is large, we will find a third party to re-intervene in the damage assessment...... Do you think that works? "Yes...... But there is no evidence, I have to sign a compensation agreement with you, otherwise I will definitely not finish this matter with Jiang Qiao. “

Chen Yi said without giving in: "Assess the loss first, and after we reach an agreement on the amount of compensation for the loss, I will definitely sign a compensation agreement with you." Otherwise, the matter now is to let the police station intervene in mediation, which is also the same process. Chen Yi said and took out a bag from his bag, then handed it to the landlord, and said: "There is 30,000 yuan in this, which is considered a deposit for me to admit this matter, if you agree, write a receipt to me now." ”

The landlord grabbed a life-saving straw, when he went to the cake shop opposite, borrowed paper and pen, wrote a receipt, and then took the 30,000 yuan deposit from Chen Yi's hand.

In a moment, Tulip Road lost its morning hustle and bustle, and the streets rarely saw school children and office workers waiting for the bus, and the onlookers gradually dispersed. At the door of the piano shop, which has become a ruin, only Chen Yi and me, the former lovers, are left.

I turned my back to her, and then I took a cigarette out of my pocket and lit it, and I was holding back the tears that were about to fall, and I was as humiliated as I was now.

I asked myself over and over again, what was wrong with me, why couldn't I live a little calmer? I really can't stand the current torment anymore, I need someone to save me, but this person is definitely not Chen Yi by my side, because I already owe her so much that I can't pay it back in this life.

Dense sweat began to break out on my head, and then my palms felt cold, I closed my eyes, but the sun stung me even more, and I fainted under the tremendous physical and psychological pressure......

……

When I woke up, it was already dusk, I opened my eyes in a daze, and found that my body was covered with a white quilt, and the smell of potion was all around, until I saw the nurse changing the water bottle for a patient in the next bed, I believed that I was indeed in the hospital, but I couldn't remember why I was in the hospital.

Looking out the window at the already dark sky, I went crazy to see Xiao. While pulling out the needle in my hand, I asked the nurse which hospital this was, and I was even more anxious when I learned that it was not the hospital where Xiao Ai lived. When I used my leather shoes as slippers and ran like crazy towards the elevator exit from the hospital, I suddenly had an extremely strong premonition that I was going to lose Xiao Ai...... It was as if I hadn't seen her again for a century, and in the time I was unconscious, the sea had already turned into a mulberry field.

Because it was the rush hour after work, I couldn't get a taxi, so I used the most primitive way to run frantically to the hospital where Xiao Ai lived. I couldn't count how long I had been running, but I could only see rows of streetlights coming up behind me, neon lights up the city and my eagerness, and I couldn't see the faces and changing expressions of the people I passed by.

I gradually felt that this world has nothing to do with me, and birth, old age, sickness and death have nothing to do with me, I just want to see Xiao Ai, and then listen to her gently call me "Jiangqiao".

I finally reached the door of Hospital No. 6 in this extreme way, my throat burned as if it had been burned, my hands resting on my knees tiredly, and then I looked at the spotlights hanging on the outpatient floor in a dizziness that I was almost out of breath......

I kept giving myself psychological hints, to believe that Xiao Ai was less than 200 meters away from me at the moment. If I could have been a little crazier, I could have seen her in five minutes, and then listened to her voice and soothe my restless heart.

However, I really couldn't continue to have any more strength, just kept panting, and the muddy and sticky sweat ran down my neck into my undershirt, making me feel nausea that was about to faint again.

In the light of the indistinguishable colors, I finally saw Yu Xin walking out of the outpatient building, I seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and then walked towards her with a mechanical step, and we met under the street lamp next to the parking lot.

I swallowed in pain and asked her, "What about Xiao Ai?" …… Is she still here? ”

Yu Xin shook her head at me, and then replied, "I just went up and asked the nurse, and she said that Xiao Ai had already gone through the discharge procedures at noon...... It seems that Yuan Zhen and Professor Ruan took her away......"

The pain of suffocation swallowed me instantly, and I said to her in a panic: "My phone is out of battery, give me your mobile phone, I want to call Xiao Ai......"

As I spoke, I stretched out my hand to her, Yu Xin pushed my hand away, looked at me with a very sad expression, and replied after a while: "It's useless, Xiao Ai has already left, not only her mobile phone can't get through, but even Senior Brother Yuan Zhen's mobile phone can't get through...... I also called Brother Xiao Wei, but no one answered on his side. If I'm not mistaken, it was Professor Nguyen who took her...... I'm sorry, Brother Jiangqiao, I shouldn't have persuaded you to leave the hospital in the morning, but I really didn't expect Teacher Ruan's movements to be so fast, and I didn't expect Xiao Ai to choose to go with her......"

I gasped violently, and my eyes began to get bloodshot. Then I desperately remembered in my brain what Xiao Ai had told me last night, but I couldn't remember it at all, just as if she was still in my arms, surrounded by the breath she fascinated me.

An ambulance sped past me, and the flickering lights finally pulled me back into reality, and all the qiē about Xiao Ai became an illusion. She left, just left quietly, but how could she be willing?

We are willing to give up the qiē that happened to us this year, and we are willing to pinch life and death together, tie it into a dead button, and vow never to separate!

I miss her, alive and dead, but where is she at this moment, is she also facing the endless neon, missing the past between us?