Chapter 4: Even if he is the devil
Despite Tang Wan's objections, Tan Dong still took her to a nearby hospital. After the doctor's examination, he said that there was no serious problem, but there was a little skin on his knees and arms. After using iodine wine to eliminate the poison, Tan Dong originally wanted the doctor to bandage Tang Wan, but Tang Wan resolutely objected, saying that if two pieces of gauze were wrapped around her arms and legs, how could she go on the street.
Tan Dong smiled bitterly, in the hearts of these girls now, beauty is more important than health.
Knowing that Tang Wan was safe and sound, it was a happy thing after all, but thinking that he would have to leave the city early tomorrow morning, Tan Dong's mood quickly dimmed. Tang Wan didn't know what Tan Dong was thinking, and asked where to eat with a smile.
Tan Dong helped Tang Wan to walk on the street, and looked down at the injury on her leg: "Your leg is injured like this, where else can you go, let's find a place nearby." "It doesn't matter where you eat, it's important to be with the people you like. Tang Wan thought for a while and said, "Then let's go to Haiyun Street to eat strings of incense." Tan Dong was stunned: "Don't you like to eat those street snacks?" Tang Wan smiled: "What you like can be changed, maybe I've started to like it now?" Tan Dong understood Tang Wan's intentions, she was trying to enter his life. However, the reality is cruel, and many things are not done just by liking, or if you want to do it.
Looking at the girl with a smile on her face in front of her, Tan Dong's heartache was born again. How could he be willing to leave such a girl and go to a foreign land alone, and how could he say goodbye?
Then let's go eat the skewers first.
Chuanchuan incense is a bit like Chongqing's spicy tang, which is a variety of vegetables and meat skewers for everyone to choose. Different from Malatang, Chuanchuan incense is cooked in a pot by the owner, then put it in a small basin, pour the broth, and then match it with ingredients according to the taste of the diners.
Tang Wan had never eaten in a snack bar on the street before, but since she had eaten a string of incense with Tan Dong, she had fallen in love with this snack.
Now, Tan Dong and Tang Wan are sitting in the small shop on Haiyun Street, and there is a small basin in front of them, and inside the basin is a scalded string of incense. Tang Wan ate a lot, and her stomach felt swollen again. She patted her stomach and sighed, "It's so full." Why am I so able to eat when I'm with you? Tan Dong had been staring at Tang Wan for a while, and when her gaze met his, he hurriedly looked away. He said, "If you don't stay with me in the future, you have to eat more." I hope you can grow fatter. Tang Wan smiled: "What, think I'm thin?" She remembered that she had seen the thin man in the elevator at noon, so she said casually, "You must have never seen a real thin man, you can hang him on the wall with a nail." Tang Wan stopped talking, because she felt that discomfort in her heart again at this time. Maybe it's because I've eaten too much, she thought. But the discomfort is the same as the feeling in the elevator at night, and I always feel a little fear in my heart. However, with Tan Dong, what is there to worry about, no one can hurt herself, Tan Dong will be like a legendary prince, driving away any devil who dares to come to her.
Thinking like this, Tang Wan became happy again. Only then did she notice that Tan Dong's expression was a little abnormal, and he was also carrying a big travel bag, which was bulging, as if it contained a lot of things.
Tang Wan said, "Why are you carrying such a big bag today?" "Why do you carry such a big bag? Tan Dong was in a trance, and some sorrow disappeared on his face. The pain in his heart soon spread, and some sorrow also crept up on his forehead in due time, and he wanted to hide it, but those pain and sorrow had taken root in his heart, in his eyes, and he could no longer hide them.
Tang Wan felt it immediately, and her smile instantly condensed on her face. She grabbed Tan Dong's hand and asked, "What happened, something must have happened, isn't it!" Tan Dong was silent, speechless.
Tang Wan shook Tan Dong's hand: "Tell me, what happened." There was already a look of despair in her eyes, because for so long, she had never seen Tan Dong so depressed. She paused, then suddenly calmed down, but there was some sparkle in her eyes.
"You'll tell me sooner or later, won't you, so tell me what happened now. If you don't want me to worry, just let me know. Tell me, okay. She said.
What can you tell her? Tan Dong remained silent. He couldn't tell Tang Wan that he had quit the rented house, nor could he tell her why he had left the city, but, no matter what, Tang Wan would know what was coming: he had a ticket for Tomorrow Morning in his pocket, and he would leave the city tomorrow morning.
How did it happen? Tan Dong couldn't remember even if he wanted to break his head.
Everyone has their own history, history becomes the past, as long as time cannot be reversed, even if you have great ability, there is no way to change a trace of it. Sometimes, we have to be very careful to hide history, because if some history appears in reality, it will become a beast of prey, and it will not be someone else who will swallow it, but yourself.
Tan Dong now felt that he was walking with the beast, and he had no choice but to leave far away.
However, he couldn't show the beast in front of Tang Wan. He loves Tang Wan, and if losing Tang Wan becomes an inevitability, he would rather keep the current feeling in her heart. Many years later, when Tang Wan has been freed from the pain and remembers a love affair that happened in her life, she will definitely have some faint sadness, and at that time, she will definitely not forget a name named Tan Dong.
In this way, it may already be the best ending.
Tan Dong was silent, he could only let himself be ruthless. In fact, at this time, he felt very vulnerable, because the enemy he needed to face was himself and not someone else, and he was an enemy that he could not kill.
People always like to use escape to face some reality, and who knows how deep the helplessness of escape is?
Tan Dong finally said to Tang Wan: "I'm leaving, leaving this city forever and never coming back." Tang Wanru was hit hard, she stared at Tan Dong blankly, speechless in shock. Immediately, tears welled up in her eyes, and her gaze had become cold.
"Are you leaving me? You promised to protect me well, for the rest of your life. Now, have you forgotten your promise? You're going to leave me alone, do you think it's hard to protect me? "Not so!" Tan Dong said heavily, "I haven't forgotten what I promised you, but now it's different, I can't even protect myself, how can I still protect you?" "I don't care!" Tang Wan shook her head again and again, screaming loudly, her gaffe made her the center of attention in this small incense shop, "I don't care, I want you to guard me for the rest of your life!" Tan Dong looked at the girl in front of him, his eyes were full of helplessness: "Perhaps, leaving you is to protect you." Tang Wan stopped talking, and just stared at Tan Dong in a daze. Her beautiful face was distorted at this point, and the lines that had been soft became stiff. Her hair shook her head and swayed, and a few strands of tears ran across her cheeks. Her expression of despair was mixed with indifference and hatred, as if Tan Dong had committed a great crime by abandoning her. Eventually, apathy and hatred dissipated, leaving nothing but despair.
Tan Dong looked at the change in Tang Wan's expression in surprise, and felt that Tang Wan had become strange at this moment. Perhaps not strange, when he first saw her, she often showed this despair in her eyes, occasionally mixed with indifference and hatred.
And fear.
- Is there something hidden in this girl that you don't know?
All this is no longer important, Tan Dong thought sadly, this night will eventually pass, he will finally step on the departing train tomorrow morning, and his love affair with Tang Wan will definitely become history. Now he only hopes that many years from now, if he has the opportunity to rub shoulders with the girl in front of him on the street again, she will still remember his name.
Tonight's sky is a little strange, behind the dark clouds, there seems to be some bright light that appears and disappears. There is a warm smell wafting in the air, and those warmth are different from normal times, they seem to take on a shape, constantly squeezing you in the air, making you feel depressed and irritable.
On the way to send Tang Wan home, on the sidewalk, he saw a big rat more than half a foot long chirping across the road. Tang Wan screamed in surprise and hid in Tan Dong's arms. Tan Dong also stretched out his arms and hugged the girl tightly in an instant.
Tan Dong's embrace was as warm and sturdy as it felt out.
Tang Wan cried, in Tan Dong's arms. Those thin cries made her look like a helpless child, Tan Dong stroked her back and found that the girl had been trembling slightly. As a result, Tan Dong also had some desire to cry.
Crying seems to be far away from Tan Dong, and the only crying that remains in his memory seems to be when he was in middle school. That evening, he stood in the courtyard of his house, looked at a big pit in the courtyard, and quietly wept. In the location of the pit, there should have been a leafy gardenia tree.
At the door of Tang Wan's community, Tang Wan turned around and faced Tan Dong. At this moment, Tan Dong suddenly found that Tang Wan had a firm expression on his face that he had never seen before. Tang Wan said: "Don't go, wait for me here, I know what happened, and after I settle the matter, I'll come back to you." Tan Dong panicked in an instant, he waved his hand again and again, but only two words came out of his mouth: "Don't!" Tang Wan didn't stay any longer, turned around and ran towards the community. Tan Dong wanted to chase after him, but Tang Wan ran so fast that she was already more than ten meters away from him. Tan Dong wandered outside the gate of the community, and suddenly there was a huge layer of fear in his heart.
- What is he afraid of?
- What made him have to leave his beloved girl and leave the city?
"You're back." Tang Wan walked through the living room back to her room, as if she didn't hear her father's voice. The door slammed shut, and the two old men outside the door looked at each other, both of them were speechless, and after sighing at each other, they fell on the TV in the hall. A police movie was being broadcast on TV, and a deputy director of the Public Security Bureau personally led a team to arrest a murderer. The old man and the old lady stared at the TV, but no one paid attention to what was playing on the TV.
There was some movement in Tang Wan's room, and the old lady looked at the door over there worriedly, and then looked at her wife. The father frowned, and wanted to go up and check, but he couldn't help but move after all.
In the middle of the night, Tang Wan's door opened, Tang Wan changed into casual sportswear, and walked out with a big suitcase. The old man and the old lady were confused for a moment, and when they understood Tang Wan's intentions, they all panicked. The mother stepped forward and hugged her daughter, while the father took two steps to stop in front of Tang Wan.
The mother said with some crying, "Wan'er, what are you doing here?" The father's face was full of anger, and he pointed at Tang Wan, wanting to scold something, but he was speechless for a while, and the fingers couldn't stop shaking.
My father is really old, and although his hair is not completely white, it is all gray and gray. His skin, which had been well maintained in previous years, now showed many wrinkles, and a few age spots under his sideburns were becoming more visible. Standing in front of Tang Wan, he no longer had the calmness and generosity he used to have, just to show the level of his anger, his waist was still straight, so that people could imagine his military background.
"What the hell do you want to do!" Father finally spoke.
Tang Wan's face was indifferent, and she stared at her father without any emotion in her eyes: "I am no longer a child, I have the right to choose my own life." "What is the life you have chosen?" The father roared, "Just choose to stay with that street thug?" For his sake, you don't hesitate to run away from home and leave us behind! Tang Wan shook her head: "But you forgot, all this was caused by you." The mother grabbed Tang Wan's arm on the side: "Wan'er, how can there be parents in the world who don't want their children to be good, we do this, but it's all for you." Tang Wan still looked at her mother expressionlessly: "Do you know what I need?" You will only impose your will on me, with no regard for my feelings. Do you know, over the years, I have only been with Tan Dong that I feel down-to-earth in my heart, and I feel that I can live happily like most of the girls around me. Now, you're going to ruin the happiness I've just gotten. "Enough!" Father yelled. At this time, he felt dizzy in front of his eyes, and he clearly felt his powerlessness. Maybe he can't change his daughter's will, but he firmly believes that Tan Dong is a devil, but this devil is now sleeping. He will wake up one day and tear apart the people closest to him.
The father gasped, thinking that if he was really forced to do so, he would explain everything to his daughter, so that her daughter could completely recognize Tan Dong's true face, and at that time, her daughter would definitely understand his hard work. However, he still had a faint fear in his heart, because at this moment, his daughter's expression seemed to have returned to many years ago, and the indifference in her eyes seemed to have nothing to move her, including family affection.
The fear in my father's heart was even stronger. I can't go back to the past, and I can't let my daughter suffer such deep hurt again. The old man felt that he was in a dilemma, so he lost confidence when he spoke later.
"Wan'er, you believe in us, we are your parents, and our greatest wish is to let you live a happy life. There is a reason why we oppose your relationship with Tan Dong, maybe you don't know the reason now, but you will definitely understand it in the future, so even if you blame us in your heart now, we must be ruthless. Tang Wan sneered: "What are you trying to do?" "Resolutely don't let you have any more dealings with Tan Dong!" "That's why you have been looking for someone again and again, using both soft and hard to threaten Tan Dong." Tang Wan sneered, "How much money did you find someone to send to Tan Dong, and how much is it worth in your eyes for him to break up with me?" You also asked the people at the police station to intimidate him and threaten him with some of his previous bad deeds. Now, you have finally succeeded, and he is leaving the city, but now I tell you that if he leaves, I will follow him, and you will never be able to tear us apart. "Wan'er, how can you be so ruthless...... "Mother shed tears on the side first.
The father looked at his daughter with a grim face and disbelief. The daughter seemed to have completely changed her appearance at this moment, her usual well-behaved and docile seemed to have left her, and the indifference on her face made her look cold, as if she had fallen into an evil spirit.
"Wan'er, listen to me, I really thought of a lot of ways to separate you from Tan Dong. However, this time he wanted to leave the city, and it was really not forced by me. He wants to leave on his own, what can I do? "Do you think I'm going to take your word for it?" Tang Wan said contemptuously, "I don't believe it! "Believe it or not, don't even think about getting out of the house today." My father also became tougher.
"What if I have to go out?" "Then you can try!" Father took a step forward, and his waist, which had been a little stiff when he spoke just now, straightened up again, "No matter how much you hate me in your heart now, I still won't let you be with that devil." "The devil?" Tang Wan was stunned for a moment, and then sneered again, "Even if he is a devil, I will be with him......" Tan Dong was still outside the community, he didn't know how long he had stayed, he only knew that he had finished smoking the pack of cigarettes in his pocket that had just been opened. Tang Wan asked him to wait for her here, he didn't know if she would be able to escape her parents' interrogation tonight, and he didn't want to deepen the conflict between Tang Wan and her parents when he was about to leave, but he wanted to leave several times, but he couldn't take a step.
is about to leave the girl she loves, and even if you can see you again, you must be a thing.
The girl he loves deeply is what he swore to protect with his life.
I don't know how long it has passed, and Tan Dong is sitting in a corner by the gate of the community. At this time, he took out another box of Sequoia brand cigarettes from his travel bag, and when he lit the fire, he found that the lighter could not be lit. He wanted to dig another lighter out of his bag, but he was disappointed. He stood up in frustration and wanted to go to the guard room of the community to borrow a fire from the security guard on duty, but at this moment, he suddenly froze.
The stars and the moon were all covered by dark clouds in the sky at this time, and with the yellow lights in front of the community, Tan Dong saw that the sky showed a kind of blue color that he had never seen before, as if there was a strong blue light behind the clouds to shine down, but because the clouds were too thick to penetrate, he could only set off the dark clouds in the sky as if they were transparent. It was a strange sight, with darkness covering the land, and the sky full of almost transparent blue and blue colors. Tan Dong looked up for a while, muttered something indistinctly, and walked towards the duty room. At this moment, his body suddenly shook.
Of course, it was not only his body that shook, but also the gate and duty room of the community in front of him, the rows of buildings in the community, and even the cement road under his feet shook in that instant.
Tan Dong quickly stabilized his body, and the days of following the black three dances and boxing made him vigorous and stable. Still, there was a deep fear in his heart.
After a moment of confusion, he remembered the recent rumors of an earthquake in the city.
The earthquake did happen, and it was not just a rumor, as the authorities claimed.
After the thought of the earthquake came to his mind, Tan Dong stood still, as if he wanted to confirm what had happened. But the earth only shook and in an instant it was calm again. Therefore, Tan Dong was puzzled, and he didn't know if the shaking just now was his hallucination.
The community was still quiet at the moment, and even the security guards sleeping in the duty room in the gate did not move at all. Could it be that no one else noticed the shaking just now? Could it be that he really hallucinates about an earthquake? Tan Dong's fear surged up again, and some sad expressions appeared on his face.
- Is my illness happening again?
- Could it be that the devil who has been sleeping for many years has awakened again?
Tan Dong stood by the door of the community as if an old monk had settled down, and became stupid as if he had entered a magic barrier. Then he slapped himself the cheek, and after the crisp sound, he felt pain.
Pain is a real feeling.
Tan Dong was confused.
At this moment, the earth suddenly shook again, and this time the shaking had a continuity, and the lampstand of a street lamp not far away collapsed. The earthquake became a reality again and appeared in front of Tan Dong.
Tan Dong breathed a long sigh of relief, his complexion returned to normal in an instant, and there was even joy, as if a person who had been wandering in the maze for a long time had finally found an exit.
"It's an earthquake, it's an earthquake, it......'s an earthquake," Tan Dong muttered, and then laughed loudly, not hiding his excitement after relief.
Some windows in the community were lit up, and the sound of some glass breaking came at the same time. Screams followed, and the silent neighborhood woke up. Some agile residents soon appeared on the concrete road of the community, carrying boxes and large bags, apparently prepared. More people appeared after them, mostly disheveled and embarrassed, shouting and calling out the names of their families. Whose child is crying, the voice is loud, and it goes straight to the sky.
Faced with the sudden noise, Tan Dong was confused again, as if he didn't know how to adapt to the influx of people. But in an instant, he became nervous, chanted Tang Wan's name in his mouth, and finally stopped hesitating, and ran in the direction of the crowd.
- He is going to find Tang Wan, he must see that Tang Wan is unharmed in order to completely put his mind at ease.
- Tang Wan Tang Wan, you must not be fine.
Tan Dong, who was running, searched through the oncoming crowd, and his mind was full of frustrated thoughts. At this time, he felt that it was really a very stupid thing for him to decide to leave the city and leave Tang Wan. He promised to protect Tang Wan for the rest of his life, and no matter how much change happened, he would not change. But now, he is leaving her and going to another country. Of course, he could find a reason not to let Tang Wan get hurt, but in fact, he was too selfish, and what he wanted to protect was actually himself and not Tang Wan.
Therefore, Tan Dong was full of guilt for Tang Wan at this time, and at the same time, the thought of seeing Tang Wan unharmed wanted to become stronger, as if if Tang Wan had any misfortune in the earthquake, it would be his fault.