It was already ten o'clock in the night, I called Yu Xin, and she told me that Xiao Fang would stay with her for the night tonight, and asked me not to worry about it.

Ended the call with Yu Xin, I found something to drink from the refrigerator, and then sat at the door of the small courtyard, looking at the starry sky through the small gap between the courtyard walls, and my troubles finally stopped breeding at this time, my consciousness seemed to be integrated with the vast sky, and then took a puff of cigarette, I felt that I was a fairy who was beyond the mortal world, I didn't have to care about Zhao Mu's feelings, and I didn't care whether my small courtyard would be demolished.

Such a good state was broken by the sudden appearance of edamame, and ten o'clock in the summer night was too early for an active child like him.

Edamame sat down next to me with a submachine gun in his hand, and he asked me, "Nihashi, are you drinking again?" ”

I showed him the can next to me and said, "It's not beer, it's Coke." ”

"Then give me a drink."

I handed him the drink can, and he drank half of the can in one go, then gave it back to me, then pointed the gun in his hand at me and asked, "Nihashi, you tell me honestly, did you poison Coke?" ”

"Nope."

"Then why does this boss have a stomachache after drinking, do you want to rebel?" Edamame said and pushed the submachine gun to my chest again.

"Get your gun away."

Before I could finish my sentence, Edamame fell on my lap and said dyingly, "Ah...... Second Bridge, you killed me, you can take all my country, but you are not allowed to take any of the toys I put in the box. ”

"You've given it to me, why can't you give me the toys?"

"I'm dead, please don't talk to ghosts."

I patted Edamame on the back and whispered, "Don't die yet, talk to me." ”

Edamame came to life again, and then looked at me with a righteous face, and his thick eyebrows and big eyes really seemed to represent the justice of this world at this moment, I brewed a little and asked him: "If someone wants to tear up your house and let you live somewhere else, are you willing?" ”

Edamame picked up the submachine gun that he had just thrown away, then pointed to the place at the mouth of the alley and asked me, "Who is going to lift my house?" ”

"A bunch of bad guys who will fly in the sky."

Deeply worried, he was silent for a long time, and then asked me, "Can my gun hit them?" ”

"It's hard to say."

Edamame was very frightened, he hugged my thigh and said, "Second bridge, I still have a lot of guns at home, I'll give you one, let's protect my home together, okay?" ”

Looking at his way of believing it, I seem to understand a little bit why he is willing to give me the country rather than lose those toys, because in a child's value system, toys are the things that are integrated with his life.

I put my arm around Edamame's shoulder, feeling his small body, I suddenly missed my childhood very much, although I tried my best to avoid it, but the countless choices in adulthood will still be involved with the value of gain and loss, this is the source of my pain, so many times I would rather be a lonely person, because loneliness means cutting off contact with the world, and there will be no trouble and choice created by others.

Edamame fell asleep on my lap again, and didn't take him with him until his dad Mao Ji returned to the alley after partying. Before leaving, Mao Zhi asked me: "Jiangqiao, did you hear from the TV station that our alley is going to be demolished?" ”

"Well, what do you think?"

Mao Zhi almost didn't think about it, and replied: "I definitely support the demolition, don't you know, since we have edamame, our house is not enough, and every time a guest comes, we have to arrange to stay in a hotel...... We can't wait to move outside to change to a commercial house, but the current housing prices in Nanjing are too exaggerated......" Speaking of this, he stopped, his expression looked very angry, and said: "I don't know which bastard, I actually said that the house here does not meet the demolition standards, and it must be protected, isn't it that the hope that our family has been looking forward to for so many years has been lost!" …… I want to know who is behind it, I have to beat it up, it's so immoral! ”

I looked at Mao Zhi, forced a smile, and didn't continue the conversation, and Mao Zhi, who had no head to talk about, just hugged the sleeping edamame and left.

……

Just as I was about to go back to the house, I heard a familiar sound of footsteps in the alley, and my heart moved, because I had rarely met her back in this place at this time.

Chen Yi stood in front of me, she was dressed in a white dress, like an otherworldly woman in the starlight, I lowered my head and fastened my shoelaces, but it was because I was not used to facing her at this time.

I asked her, "Why didn't you come back until now?" ”

"I invited friends from the media to have dinner, and Jinding Real Estate's project in our place was temporarily suspended, thanks to their help!"

I looked at her and thought of Mao Zhi and Zhao Mu again, as if I saw the fierce collision of two ideologies. She said that he had no feelings, no human feelings, and was mercenary, and he said that she was a bastard who pretended to be Qinggao, which moved his survival interests.

In fact, no one is wrong, the fault is that there is no choice in this matter, to dismantle together, or not to dismantle together, so there will always be people who will become victims, but demolition must be the mainstream public opinion, so Chen Yi and I, who tend not to dismantle, are undoubtedly hitting stones with eggs.

I forced a smile, and then said to Chen Yi: "Don't come back to live during this time." ”

Chen Yi was a little surprised, she asked, "I don't come back to live, so where do I live?" ”

"Why don't you take advantage of the fact that you don't have anything to do lately and go on a trip."

"I just came back from a trip, and I have no plans to travel for the time being, and this side is very close to the company in Jinqiu, so it is convenient for us to meet and communicate with the media company at any time. Now that she and Qin Miaotou have invested in the funds, I am not completely out of things to do, and I have to often ask artists to meet and talk about cooperation. ”

"Then you can move in with Jin Qiu, it's more convenient."

Chen Yi looked at me with even more puzzled eyes, and she asked again: "What's wrong with you, it feels weird!" ”

After a period of silence, I finally raised my head and looked at her, and after thinking for a long time, I replied: "This is the end of the matter about the demolition, after such an exposure was interfered with by the relevant departments, it also made Zhao Mu choke." ”

Chen Yi's expression immediately changed, and she asked in a deep voice, "What do you mean now?" ”

"Let it be, let Zhao Mu and their group deal with the rest of the matter, if the relevant departments really want to protect this alley, then it's best, if they have the ability to publicize this project, we will admit it."

When I said this, my heart was extremely painful, but thinking of the nurturing grace of Zhao Mu's parents and Zhao Chu's brotherhood beyond life and death, I had no way to stand on the opposite side of Zhao Mu in such a posture. On the contrary, I should be proud of what he has achieved today.

But he didn't want to, Chen Yi replied very resolutely: "I have inquired that this project was initiated by Zhao Muti, and this is the place where he was born and raised, so he shouldn't do it...... If he cares so much about our feelings, then why should I stand in his shoes and think about him? Anyway, I will ask my media friends to continue to put pressure on the department in charge of land planning in the form of follow-up reports. ”

After Chen Yi said this, she lost the interest of continuing to talk to me, she turned around and left here, and I really saw her dislike of me in her back, she hated my vacillating position, but I had a hard time, because it was no one else who led the project, it was Zhao Mu.

After Chen Yi left, I took out my mobile phone from my pocket and dialed Jin Qiu's number. In fact, I rarely take the initiative to call Jin Qiu, so after connecting, she asked in surprise: "Why did you call me so late, did you encounter something that you couldn't handle again?" ”

"You are the queen mother, I have to find you to hug my thigh when I encounter something that I can't handle."

"Then why are you calling me?"

After a moment of silence, I replied, "Can you invite Chen Yi to live with you for a while in your own name, or you can travel with a companion for a while, anyway, don't let her live on Tulip Road." ”

Jin Qiu was stunned and asked, "What's the matter, she lives on Tulip Road and gets in the way of you and Xiao Ai?" …… If so, then Xiao Ai's belly is too small! ”

"Xiao Ai himself went to Moscow to participate in the performance, it will take several days, how can this be the reason."

Jin Qiu broke the casserole and asked, "What is the reason for that?" ”

"Don't ask, if it's a friend, you just say it's okay."

Jin Qiu rarely chose to compromise with me, she replied: "The funds of the media company have been in place, and we are ready to sign an artist who has been developing in South Korea, so I will personally go to South Korea in the next two days, the time should not be short, I will persuade Chen Yi to go with me, can you rest assured now?" ”

"Hmm."

"Is there anything else you want to tell me?"

"No, you should rest early."

Jin Qiu said "good night" and hung up the phone, and I just remembered that I should be concerned about whether Lao Jin has been in trouble with her lately, and our friendship can't be limited to me thinking of her when I am in trouble. So, for the first time in my life, I had a feeling of indebtedness to Jin Qiu, maybe there was, but now it has accumulated a lot, and I have noticed it.

Anyway, to this day, I don't hold any grudge against her for purging me from the company in the first place, and I like to think of her as a trustworthy, friend-friendly friend of the opposite sex, just like she did before she went to study abroad.

……

Two days have passed, and the demolition of the alley has become a hot topic among the neighbors, and even some of the more radical residents have been planning to borrow a sum of money to renovate their homes before the project has been approved, in order to seek more compensation for the demolition, and I am walking on thin ice in this abnormal atmosphere, and I always feel that something will happen.

My hunch was right, and on the third day I was awakened by a very angry knock at the door. I got dressed and got out of bed, and when I opened the door, I was immediately shocked by the scene in front of me, almost all the neighbors around the alley had gathered in front of the small courtyard, and the courtyard door had been splashed with red paint, venting their resentment towards me.

Maodou's father, Mao Zhi, asked me as a representative: "Jiangqiao, the demolition was stopped, are you behind it?" ”

I was mentally prepared, since I could carry this matter down in front of Zhao Mu, I would be able to carry this matter down in front of everyone, so I replied: "I'm not a ghost, I just hope that this alley can be preserved, after all, people who have lived in it for several generations." ”

My words caused public anger, and even if there were people, they pointed to the ugly and said: "You little rabbit cub who has no one to raise, who can you represent, we are looking forward to demolition, we have been looking forward to demolition for so many years, you can point fingers at this matter?" ”

Everyone's feelings were ignited in an instant, and they all pointed the finger at me, seeing that they were about to get out of control, and I was a little confused in these curses, and then I couldn't hear anything, only feeling that decades of neighborhood friendship were nothing more than this in the face of the demolition. It turned out that I was just a rabbit cub with no one to raise in their hearts, and I really felt what it means to be warm and cold.

The crowd became even more indignant, and some people pushed me away and rushed into the courtyard, and I don't know where they got their strength, and several people worked together to overturn my stone table, and smashed the flowers and plants that I had taken care of, but in those broken voices, I saw the tolerance of the lawless people.

I finally couldn't restrain the anger in my heart, and walked quickly to the people who smashed the hardest, and then pushed them away with all my might, one of them was a little older, and I no longer wanted to call the elder a middle-aged man staggered to the ground, and his second son suddenly came to revenge, and picked up a flower pot in the back and smashed it on my head......

I turned my head, but my body was out of control, I felt like I couldn't exert any strength, blood ran down my hair and into the neckline, staining my shirt red, but the sound of those curses never stopped......

I sat down on the floor, and it was only Edamame in front of me, and he remembered handing me a submachine gun and telling me to shoot them......

In my dizziness, a heart-rending voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard gate: "Get out of the way, you all get out of the way......"

In a blur, I saw Chen Yi's vague figure, she squeezed away the people who were unwilling to get out of the way, and staggered towards me......

She crouched on the ground and leaned me into her arms, the blood on my head stained her white T-shirt, I had never seen her cry so heartbreakingly, but unfortunately I couldn't see her face clearly, my consciousness was getting more and more blurred.

I'm tired, I want to get some sleep, and then have a sweet dream, say goodbye to these conflicts of interest, say goodbye to those values that make me so disgusted