Chapter 21: Poverty and Love
PS: The fight against corruption and the big reform are about to begin
It was an evening, and when Lu Tianyi returned to the University of Law, he felt that things were wrong. *,,Now, in this world, he is alone. This sad feeling is like the ice bar under the eaves of the campus, chilling the heart.
The entire campus was shrouded in the afterglow of the setting sun, and the originally blue sky was dyed orange and red at this time, and the clouds, which should have been as white as snow, were also painted with red paint at this time. The crowded crowd shuttled through the campus of the University of Law, and Lu Tianyi walked aimlessly with the crowd. Not far away, there are young couples looking for four-leaf clovers that represent happiness in the meadows.
Lu Tianyi recalled the days when he and Luo Jiajia were looking for four-leaf clovers together, it seemed like a distant night, and all the scenery was still visible when he pushed the heart window. They sat side by side, stupidly on the grass, staring blankly at the sky, looking at the Big Dipper, and the laughter of youth seemed to still linger in their ears.
At this time, a cold wind blew, and a few yellowed sycamore leaves slowly fell from mid-air, Lu Tianyi picked them up gently, he knew that that kind of simple time and nostalgia were about to come to an end.
Lu Tianyi and Ruan Yiyong talked about killing the vice principal, but Ruan Yiyong never thought that Lu Tianyi would really do that. He knows Lu Tianyi too well, and Lu Tianyi is just talking about many things, and he may not necessarily take any action. Moreover, Lu Tianyi has never even killed chickens since he was a child, killing people, this kind of technical work, Ruan Yiyong estimates that Lu Tianyi will not be able to.
Ruan Yiyong persuaded Lu Tianyi: "Friend, you have to understand that in this world, it is really normal to fall out of love. Don't care about the past, people should live in the present. The purpose is to have a better future. The past is just a memory, and the past means that it has passed. Things in the past, if not changed. Don't think about anything, no matter what you think, your heart will be miserable. Many times, it is our subjective magnification of illusory pain that makes life seem lifeless. Dong Guangwei has just divorced and is single, and he is accused of seducing female students. At best, it is the corruption of private life. You wait a little longer, I'm already starting to collect evidence of Dong Guangwei's corruption."
"I just want to love someone well, is it wrong to love someone?" Lu Tianyi couldn't wait any longer. this world. Some people live for fame, and some people live for profit, what about Lu Tianyi? Except for Luo Jiajia, he has nothing. Nothing.
"There's nothing wrong with love. It's just that the wrong person is love. Love is a matter of two people, and not loving is also a matter of two people, don't think of it as a matter of one person. All you lose is someone who doesn't love you; And what she lost was someone who loved her. If love is the most valuable thing in the world, you have much less to lose than hers in comparison. It is not you who should feel the most regret and pain now. It should be her. Ruan Yiyong comforted Lu Tianyi and told him about his past thoughts: "Changing your mind is the fundamental way to solve the problem of falling out of love." If you want to get out of the sea of suffering quickly. Just change your mind right away. Life is what it is, there is no absolute loss. There is always a splendid scenery for you, and you have to be brave enough to go down until the end, and then you will see the flowers bloom. ”
Lu Tianyi didn't say anything more, he continued to drink alone, his heart was like a tomb, and his soul had already been buried. He felt that the meaning of his life was a barren land, and even weeds could not grow.
After drinking too much, Lu Tianyi became prone to insomnia, and he was always having the same strange dream. He dreamed that he was in a silvery world, where ancient pine trees were towering to the sky. The earth was covered with a white shawl, the snow was so thick that it almost covered the bushes, and the snow was deserted, and he struggled to walk alone in the wind and snow, leaving a trail of footprints behind him. At this moment, a huge bear chased after him, and he ran and ran, and finally fell, and the cold wind blew a large snowflake on his body. He sank deeper and deeper into the snow, and gradually became unable to breathe. His cries for help were overshadowed by the terrible silence of the snow and the roaring wind. For many nights, Lu Tianyi woke up from the biting cold wind. Outside the window is often a dull night, sometimes it snows, and the sound of swaying is especially easy to invade people's ears in the silent night. In the morning, he was as withered and emaciated as his head would ache, and in broad daylight he would not be able to help but shout. The classmates in the dormitory all rumored that Lu Tianyi was crazy.
That morning, Lu Tianyi jumped out of bed and went to the cafeteria to buy two meat buns, but found that he had no appetite, so he brought them back to his classmates in the dormitory.
Nothing out of the ordinary. The wind is strong in the north, and the sun is cold.
Behind the plaza of the University of France, a large patch of withered four-leaf clover was trampled towards, some even into the dirt.
"Does this poor grass feel painful if it is trampled on arbitrarily?" Lu Tian couldn't help but burst into tears when he thought of his humble state of mind.
After a moment of thought, his stomach began to protest. With his head down, he walked briskly out of the gate of the campus, and the shouting of a fish vendor not far away caught his attention.
As soon as Lu Tian looked around, there were several piles of stiff fathead fish in front of the middle-aged woman. I saw that the female trader raised her knife and fell, and the huge fish heads were cut off in response. Lu Tian didn't care about the strong fishy smell and leaned over. Looking at the body of the fish that was still bleeding crimson, his eyes lit up, and he found what he wanted. At this time, the number of people buying fish heads gradually increased, and Lu Tianyi also took the opportunity to squeeze in. When the peddler pulled herself out again, she noticed that the knife was gone, and she scolded her in the street.
Lu Tianyi pretended not to hear anything, pulled his padded jacket, and strode towards the school. When he was about to arrive at the school gate, Lu Tianyi found an old man with white hair and a gray torn cotton jacket lying on the ground, pulling an erhu with red paint that was about to fall off, and the melody was very miserable. Lu Tianyi threw the only two yuan left on his body into his broken hat.
After stealing the hawker's fish knife, Lu Tianyi walked into the school and suddenly found that the school was so beautiful: the sunlight penetrated the deep forest, the landscape was like a splashed ink painting, the quaint building had a unique aura, the breeze sang on the emerald green eaves, and the maple leaves of the trees made him feel the splendor of life. But when he thought of Luo Jiajia, he felt that everything was illusory. What is really there, only the sad loneliness and sorrow of the present!
Lu Tianyi screamed and ran wild around the campus like a wild horse. When he was tired of running, he sat down on a stone bench and lay down to catch his breath. The people next to him avoided Lu Tian one after another. At this time, Lu Tianyi realized that the knife on his body might have some fishy smell, and he pulled his padded jacket to cover up the smell. A girl with a bucket waist glared at Lu Tianyi fiercely and ran away.
Snowflakes are falling in the sky. Lu Tianyi was lying on the cold stone bench, the snowflakes were dancing lightly, and many people on campus shouted happily: "It's snowing!" It's snowing! ”
Couples in twos and threes. Holding hands on campus, talking, laughing, and playing. Lu Tianyi was even more lonely. He didn't know how long he lay on the stone bench, got up and went to the Confucius Tower. It is one of the oldest buildings in the University. A class schedule is posted on the wall. Dong Guangwei's Chinese culture class is 10 o'clock in the morning.
It was the depths of winter, and the maple forest around the Confucius Tower seemed to be on fire. There is a cloud in "Zhou Yi": "The blood is soaring to the sky, and the fate is Beidou".
As soon as Lu Tianyi walked to the front of the classroom, his eyes were red, and when he saw Dong Guangwei, it seemed that he was not a person, but a huge fish head. There are also a pair of eyes like fish bubbles, and the upper and lower fish lips open and close. His hand holding the knife trembled, trembling. It's not that he hasn't struggled in his heart, but at this moment, what's the point of struggling? Life has completely abandoned him, like Luo Jiajia.
According to the accounts of the eyewitnesses at the scene, the situation on that day was as follows: At that time, Vice President Dong Guangwei was spitting on the students to give a lesson. In the classroom where the murder took place, in the front row was a short-haired girl with plump breasts, a slender waist, and two slender thighs gently trembling under the desk. At this time, the north wind blew the classroom windows rattling. Some timid girls began to bury their heads in their books, not knowing whether to sleep on the table or secretly look in the mirror. Suddenly, a tall young man barged in, wearing a shabby cotton jacket, with a faceless expression, his hair disheveled, and his eyes shuddering. In his hand was a sharp machete, and the droplets of condensed snow shimmered. The young man kicked open the classroom door, and before Vice Principal Dong Guangwei could react, he jumped onto the podium and wiped the knife to his neck. Suddenly, Vice President Dong Guangwei fell to the ground, blood gushing out. Before Dong Guangwei's huge body fell, the chalk in his right hand fell to the ground, and blood spread on the chalk and then flowed all over the ground. At that moment, the world was quiet, as if only the sound of the wall clock on the wall was heard, and the young man's pale face was also splashed with blood, and his angry eyes and Vice President Dong Guangwei didn't have time to close their eyes were incredibly open. The air in the classroom was thick with the smell of blood and fish.
Lu Tianyi then walked out of the classroom, a cold wind blew, and Lu Tianyi suddenly felt unusually cold on his body. He lit a cigarette and didn't run. The moment Lu Tianyi swung the knife to chop fish at Vice Principal Dong Guangwei's neck, he thought he was a hero, but when Dong Guangwei's scarlet blood sprayed from the carotid artery to his pale face, he suddenly felt nauseous, and the smell of blood was like suffocation, as if he was locked up in the abalone, and the contents of his stomach rushed up to his throat. At that moment, Lu Tianyi suddenly felt that he had a hideous face and had become a murderer with an unforgivable crime.
Lu Tianyi looked at the familiar campus, stretched out his hand, and a white snowflake melted in his palm. His heart also began to snow, and the snow covered everything silently, annihilating the confusion, pride and sorrow of youth. The snow was flying, and when everything fell silent, the world suddenly became clear and clear, and the smiling cute girl, as if in mid-air, smiled at him. That smile was buried deep in Lu Tianyi's heart. Snowflakes kept drifting in the sky of the campus in the cold wind, and after a while, the ground was completely white. The earth is white and expansive, and it is particularly dazzling. It didn't take long for two ambulances and a police car to roar into the campus of the University of Law.
After Ruan Yiyong heard that Lu Tianyi had killed someone, he accelerated the collection of evidence of Dong Weiguang's corruption and handed it over to the procuratorate, and also invited Yang Jingbin, a famous lawyer in Shanghai, for Lu Tianyi.
On the day of the trial of Lu Tianyi's murder case, Luo Jiajia lowered her head and stood on the witness stand, she was wearing a pure white dress, the corners of her eyes were moist, and her face was haggard. After a series of questions, Lu Tianyi's lawyer Yang Jingbin looked directly into Luo Jiajia's eyes and asked her: "Is there a relationship between you and Dong Guangwei?" ”
Luo Jiajia said: "Yes." ”
Lu Tianyi's lawyer Yang Jingbin was shocked, he always thought that Luo Jiajia was under the unspoken rules, Ruan Yiyong also told him this in advance, a large string of typed abdominal manuscripts died in the stomach. He hesitated for a few seconds and asked Luo Jiajia calmly: "Do you love Lu Tianyi or Dong Guangwei?" ”
Luo Jiajia lowered her head and hesitated, she remembered the picture of looking for four-leaf clover with Lu Tianyi in the campus square, the sun at that time was warm and bright, under the blue sky and white clouds, Lu Tianyi was wearing a white shirt, holding her little hand with wide and warm hands, looking at her eyes affectionately. Luo Jiajia saw her little self in Lu Tianyi's bright pupils, and her heart beat faster. But in her mind, the figure of Dong Guangwei immediately appeared again, he stroked his face, tore his skirt and panties, threw himself on the soft big bed, and entered his trembling body. At first, it hurts, but slowly, there is an indescribable pleasure, and I can't help but scream, it is not a shy gasp, nor a low moan, but a truly indulgent shout, half sea, half fire.
Love Lu Tianyi, or Dong Guangwei? This question is too difficult for Luo Jiajia to answer, compared to ** and carnal desire, which one is true love. Lu Tianyi's lawyer repeated the question again, Luo Jiajia had a headache, her head began to swell, the muscles on her face spasmed in pain, and she held her head with both hands to avoid her head bursting.
The prosecution's lawyer stood up and said to the judge: "I object, this issue has nothing to do with this case. ”
Lu Tianyi's lawyer, Yang Jingbin, said: "Your Excellency, this issue will play a key role in my defense today. ”
"Silence!" The meeting room was noisy, and the judge struck the gavel and said, "The objection is invalid, please ask the witness to answer honestly." ”
"I had a good impression of Lu Tianyi at the beginning, is that love? I do not know. Luo Jiajia raised her head, hesitated for a few seconds, bit her lip, and said inarticulately: "I have someone I like in my heart later, this person is Dong Guangwei!" After saying that, he burst into tears. It is clear that for a woman, the memory of the body is more memorable than the memory of feelings. The so-called pure love, in this world, does not exist!
At that moment, not to mention the hat, Lu Tianyi's hair and beard were green. Lu Tianyi, who had a sloppy beard, looked around the courtroom, surrounded by black and oppressive human heads, people's lips closed one by one, and he couldn't hear what people were saying. He felt an unprecedented fear in his heart, a complete despair of love. Lu Tianyi's eyes darkened, his heart suddenly emptied, and the weight of his life became very light. Trembling all over, he raised his cold handcuffs and smashed his shaved head desperately, blood streaming from his forehead and the corners of his eyes. Lu Tianyi's heart was also bleeding. The entire courtroom also got out of control, and the teachers and students who sympathized with Lu Tianyi stood up in the auditorium, emotional. They also don't want to admit the reality that in love, carnal desire defeats innocence!
"Silence!" The judge glanced at Lu Tianyi and Luo Jiajia, and slammed down the gavel.
In the end, Lu Tianyi was convicted of intentional homicide. Lu Tianyi also gave up the appeal in court. When Lu Tianyi was taken down by the tall bailiff, he glanced back at Luo Jiajia, but Luo Jiajia didn't look at him. Luo Jiajia's face was as cold as ice, as if no one else existed. Lu Tianyi thought of the school square, the four-leaf clover sprinkled with silver moonlight. There, he leaned against a broken wall and kissed Luo Jiajia's half-open lips and hot earlobes. The stars shone faintly above their heads, and the sky above the cherry trees was also **, like Luo Jiajia's soft skin and warm body under her white dress. When the wind blows, the white cherry blossoms slowly fall, like snowflakes thrown into the sky.
Lu Tianyi wanted to know why in an instant, the cherry blossoms fell, why they were so gorgeous and short-lived. He wanted to know how the fate of love, and the smiling face of his youth, could easily disappear through his body without a trace.
Later, in the detention center, Lu Tianyi said to Ruan Yiyong: "You have to be wary of such a toxic thing as love. Hearing this, Ruan Yiyong found that countless dust was flying in the air.
Lu Tianyi's case, about poverty and love, but also involves corruption**, caused an uproar in the society, and the discussion on social fairness and justice in the newspaper was intense, and many people called on the president to pardon Lu Tianyi, a "poor college student", in accordance with the law. (To be continued......)