Text: Episode 14

1.

When the tenth bottle of beer was drunk, Jiang Hong had already begun to sing excitedly, he held the beer bottle in one hand, patted the table with the other, and shouted loudly: "Music makes me quiet!" Music drives me crazy too! ”

The diners at the adjacent table looked at Jiang Hong like crazy people, some with disgust, some with sneers.

Yang Xinyue's face didn't know if it was because of her shyness or because she was red because she drank alcohol. In short, the red is very good-looking. Wearing loose clothes doesn't show what the figure is.

Cao Chengrui also likes young girls, and like all men, he has an inexplicable affection for young girls.

Jiang Hong sang and hiccuped, looked at Yang Xinyue beside him, suddenly picked up the cigarette on the table, lit one and handed it to Yang Xinyue.

I didn't expect that such an innocent little girl as she was also smoking, she was really unseemly. Cao Chengrui thought to himself.

"You guys, I'm going to pee." Jiang Hong hiccups as he gets up and walks towards the store.

There are only two people left on the table, Cao Chengrui and Yang Xinyue.

Yang Xinyue's little face was flushed, and she was wearing a pair of crimson half-rimmed glasses. The neon lights around her changed color, reflecting a blurry glow on the lenses of her glasses. Her neck was white, or rather white in the light, and her throat changed slightly to the rhythm of smoking. Neck down was the place that Cao Chengrui longed for, but he couldn't see it.

The carnal temptations of the young girl are dramatically magnified by the influence of alcohol.

The aroma of nicotine is mixed with the smell of alcohol, mixed with cumin and chili flakes.

"Sometimes it's really weird." Yang Xinyue flicked the cigarette ash and said, "I always feel that what happened in front of me has happened." She thought for a moment and then continued, "Déjà vu, you know, right? Brother Cao. ”

"Hmm."

"The body is very honest, like is like, dislike is dislike."

"Yes."

"To see is to see, to remember is to remember. Slowly it will become a habit. ”

"Oh."

"But have you thought about it?" Yang Xinyue continued with a mysterious expression: "Will our bodies deceive us? ”

"Haha, that's kind of interesting!" Cao Chengrui took a sip of beer: "But I don't understand much." ”

"For example, our brains deceive our eyes, and our noses deceive our brains."

"Still don't understand."

"Think about it, if the brain imagines a picture that appears before our eyes, but in reality that the picture doesn't exist at all. And our noses clearly smell oranges, but oranges are not in front of us. ”

"Huh?" Cao Chengrui and the second monk were puzzled.

"Jiang Hong said that I was his girlfriend, but in fact I am not not, the me you see is actually not me."

Yang Xinyue looked at Cao Chengrui's expression, raised her left hand and pulled the neckline.

"Old girl, have you drunk too much?" Cao Chengrui swallowed.

"Brother, lend me your phone." Yang Xinyue licked her lips slightly.

Cao Chengrui's drunkenness woke up half in an instant, thinking about several "terrifying" possibilities, but he still involuntarily handed the phone to Yang Xinyue.

Cao Chengrui, who took the phone back again, saw a set of numbers left on the screen: 8254874464.

"What are you talking about? So happy? Jiang Hong sat back at the table with his pants up.

Yang Xinyue looked at Cao Chengrui with a smile.

2.

8254874464。

At first, I thought it was QQ or WeChat, but after careful searching, it wasn't.

I was a little disappointed.

I remember the first time I went to Chengdu, I spent 60 yuan to go to Wuhou Temple, and I was inexplicably disappointed after entering.

The Jinli next to it was full of people and noisy.

3.

"You'd better not come to see me again."

Tao Qiwu looked at Cao Chengrui directly.

"It's dangerous, you're going to kill me, you're going to kill you."

"Why?"

"Because someone wants to kill the two of us, it's better for him to kill two birds with one stone, kill two birds with one stone, kill two birds with one stone, and don't bother at all."

At dusk, the sun dimmed, and the lights of the residential building opposite the hospital were vividly visible. Two men stood by the window at the end of the corridor on the third floor.

"Like he got into my head and picked up the flower pot on the windowsill like this." Tao Qiwu said and really picked up the flower pot on the windowsill with both hands, and the aloe vera planted in the flower pot trembled with the flower pot.

"And smash it on your head!"

Cao Chengrui fell backwards in horror and sat on the ground.

But the pot didn't come down.

"You go! Don't come to see me again. ”

Tao Qiwu slowly put down the flower pot.

4.

After many attempts, I finally lost interest in this set of numbers.

After all, it was someone else's "girlfriend", and I shouldn't be "worried" like this, not to mention that she might just be playing tricks on me.

Waterfall-like thundershowers come and go quickly.

I was sitting on the bus to the hospital, and there were large patches of water on the floor of the carriage.

When I came to the hospital where Tao Qiwu was, the dark clouds had disappeared and the sun was shining. This tertiary hospital affiliated to the medical university has never had an off-season. The crowd of people rushing in and out, and the endless flow of vehicles, are like the train station during the Spring Festival. I walked around a pool of standing water on the ground and headed for the inpatient unit.

5.

Cao Chengrui sat on the round stool next to the hospital bed, hugged his shoulders and tilted his head to look at Tao Qiwu lying on the hospital bed.

"I went out drinking with Jiang Hong yesterday."

Tao Qiwu closed his eyes, as if he was asleep.

"We've got you covered." Cao Chengrui shook his legs.

He suddenly thought of the phrase "men are poor, women are cheap", and he laughed self-deprecatingly: "Look at how poor I am." ”

"Jiang Hong drank yesterday and brought his new girlfriend, it seems to be a sophomore, right? At most, they are in their early nineteens or twenties. Cao Chengrui unconsciously shook his legs and said, "Jiang Hong always spoils the little girl." ”

"And Li Ling didn't go back to our house all night yesterday."

Cao Chengrui sighed and said, "I said, can you get better soon?" Let's drink too! I have a lot to talk to you! I drank eleven of them yesterday, and I'm still confused. ”

The phone rang, an unfamiliar number.

"Hello, is it Cao Chengrui?"

"I am."

"Brother Cao, I'm Xinyue."

Cao Chengrui's body was shocked, and he looked at Tao Qiwu on the hospital bed.

"Brother Cao?"

"Oh, do you have something to do with me?" Cao Chengrui helped his glasses.

"Did you write Untitled?"

"yes, how do you know?" Cao Chengrui subconsciously glanced at Tao Qiwu again.

"Haha, Brother Hong told me."

Cao Chengrui didn't know what to say next, so he didn't say anything.

"Do you have time now?"

"Yes."

"11:30, how about you come to our school? Please eat delicious! ”

"No problem." Cao Chengrui didn't even think about it.

"Rainbow Bridge, Area B of Huashang University. Call me when you arrive. ”

"Okay."

Cao Chengrui picked up his mobile phone, patted Tao Qiwu's hand and said, "I'll leave first, and I'll come to see you tomorrow." ”

He walked out of the ward and said hello to Tao Qiwu's mother.

6.

As soon as Cao Chengrui got into a taxi, it was pouring rain.

When we arrived at the main entrance of Area B of Huashang School, the rain stopped completely again. The boys and girls who walked out of the school building were still holding umbrellas, and some were holding each other and jumping over puddles on the ground. The rain-soaked gate of the academy was ticking with droplets. Cao Chengrui dialed Yang Xinyue's phone.

Cao Chengrui, who was waiting for Yang Xinyue at the door, thought of the scene when he was waiting for his girlfriend downstairs in the girls' dormitory more than ten years ago. More than ten years have passed in a flash. He thought that Jiang Hong would pick up the girl at school now, and he couldn't help but smile. This is Jiang Hong's capital to show off, he will always say to his friends: "I slept with a little girl of eighteen or nineteen again!" ”

Thinking like this, he inexplicably didn't have a good impression of Yang Xinyue, but was very sympathetic.

Of course, he also knew that Yang Xinyue didn't need his sympathy, it was just wishful thinking.

"Who the fuck sympathizes with me?" Cao Chengrui muttered to himself.

11:34。

Yang Xinyue walked out of the main entrance of the college's B area: wearing a lilac sleeveless shirt and a white miniskirt, her hair was naturally scattered on one side, and she was wearing her crimson half-rimmed glasses, still white and reddish.

"It didn't hit you in such a heavy rain just now, did it?"

"I happened to be in the car."

"The car stopped just after the rain?"

"Well, God willing. He knew that I was going to see the little beauty, so he asked me to be decent. ”

Yang Xinyue giggled.

"It's a lot cooler."

"It's September, and it won't be half a month before it gets colder and colder."

"An autumn rain and a cold?"

"Yes, an autumn rain and a cold, then you won't be able to show off your beautiful legs." Cao Chengrui deliberately looked at Yang Xinyue's slender white legs and said, "I'll be honest, your legs are really good-looking." ”

"That's it! Praise me a few more words! Ha ha! ”

She nodded, bowed slightly, and walked her hands around her legs, and the atmosphere suddenly became ambiguous.

Cao Chengrui sniffed, looked around and asked, "What delicious food do you want to take me to eat?" ”

"Omurice!" Yang Xinyue happily pointed to a restaurant across the street.

Although Cao Chengrui doesn't like to eat omelet rice very much, he still nodded and said, "How do you know that I like to eat omelet rice?" ”

Lying is always purposeful.

The environment of the small shop is very good, and the two of them chose a window position on the second floor to sit down. I ordered two omelette rice, a slate tofu, half a garlic fried chicken, and a small fries.

"Fried chicken with beer?" Yang Xinyue asked with a smile.

"You don't have classes in the afternoon?"

"Well, the afternoon and evening hours are yours."

Hearing Yang Xinyue say this, Cao Chengrui actually felt a little embarrassed.

"We also want two halls of Kaishi, and we want lemon-flavored."

The waiter should place the order in a loud voice.

"Why did you think you wanted to eat with me?"

"It's definitely not because Jiang Hong is not available." Yang Xinyue saw that Cao Chengrui was slightly embarrassed when she heard her say this, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Just kidding!" I haven't known Brother Jiang Hong for long, just ordinary friends! I have something to tell you for dinner today. ”

The food was served quickly, and in the blink of an eye, plates were placed on the table.

Cao Chengrui opened the beer and handed it to Yang Xinyue.

"What are you going to tell me?"

"I've read the novels you wrote."

"Well, what do you think?"

"At first, I couldn't read it at all, and when I read it, I thought the author was crazy, and then I thought it was funny, and then I started to get scared."

"Scared?" Cao Chengrui took a sip of beer.

"Have you seen Zhao Shutong in your novel?"

"How could it be that you have seen it? That's fiction, and I've certainly never seen it. ”

"You're lying."

7.

I do lie a lot.

Almost every lie is told with some kind of purpose.

Those who have no purpose, who lie just for the sake of lying, are pathological.

Silence and lies should be a sin that everyone repudiates.

Failure to communicate, prevarication with lies, can destroy the already fragile relationships between people.

However, each of us will be silent about those around us and will lie to our mouths.

When you think about it, it's really scary, how many words do we have to say in the three hundred and sixty-five days of a year?

How many more misspoken lies will you tell?

"Why do you say I'm lying?"

I asked Yang Xinyue.

"Because you saw her on the light rail."

"Who?"

"Zhao Shutong."

I took the fries and put them in my mouth, they were a little hot when they came out of the pan.

"I want to ask you something."

"Say it."

"Why don't you go over and help her?"

"Do you want to hear the truth or lie?"

"Honestly, of course."

"I'm afraid of getting into trouble."

"It's none of my business?"

I don't quite understand how she could care about this.

"Sort of."

"Then she was raped and then she committed suicide by jumping off a building, just as you predicted."

She smiled indifferently, took a sip of her beer, and stared at my face.

"It's not a prophecy, I didn't know her name was Zhao Shutong at the time, and I didn't expect things to really turn out like this."

"Zhao Shutong is a fictional character in your novel."

"Yes."

"But it's happening."

I nodded and asked, "You're just going to talk to me about this?" ”

"Well, I'm scared."

"Afraid of what?"

"She's my roommate."

"What?"

"Zhao Shutong is my roommate."

"Zhao Shutong is a character in the novel!"

"She jumped off the building and died."

8.

"That's right, she did jump off the building and died. But I wasn't the only one in the whole car, everyone was watching. Cao Chengrui was a little upset.

"But you're the only one who wrote it."

"Is it just me? The news was full of reports about it! ”

Yang Xinyue said while spinning the beer can with her hand: "Don't worry. ”

"I'm not in a hurry."

"And you said you wrote about your friend, and then something happened to him."

"That's not what I said." Cao Chengrui took a deep breath, took a sip of beer, thought for a while and said, "Have you watched any strange island anime?" ”

"Haha." Yang Xinyue scooped up the omelet rice with a spoon and took a bite.

The faint smell of fried chicken in the air mixed with the scent of her hair. Looking out from the second floor, it seems that you can catch the last tail of summer in the sun.

"Isn't it scary to have someone in a novel who is going to have an accident?"

Yang Xinyue sipped the tomato sauce on her lips.

"It's impossible for this to happen, so don't be afraid."

"Really?"

Cao Chengrui nodded, and seemed to have other ideas.

"Ding" a mobile phone prompt sound, Yang Xinyue picked up the mobile phone on the table.

She has a tiny stuffed rabbit tethered to the back of her phone case.

"Did you really write the novel?"

Yang Xinyue looked at her phone and then at Cao Chengrui.

"Of course, who else?" When Cao Chengrui said this, he couldn't help but think of Tao Qiwu.

Yang Xinyue's eyes widened when she heard this, she raised her mobile phone and said, "Your novel has been updated." ”

"What?"

Cao Chengrui hurriedly took out his mobile phone.

9.

Tao Qiwu carefully placed the flower pot in the center of the window sill.

He looked at me for a moment before turning and pulling me up from the ground.

"Lao Cao, I really want to thank you for so many years." Tao Qiwu's throat moved, and his deep-set eyes were red.

"Don't say that."

I was terrified.

"If I go, will you be lonely?"

"Where are you going?"

"I'm tired of it."

I think he's a sign of depression.

"When you get better, I'll drink with you."

"Lao Cao, let's meet indefinitely."

"What?"

I saw him deftly climb up to the windowsill, like a fish entering the sea, with his head facing the sea, and he fell headlong.

Before I even had time to think about it, what was happening in front of me pulled my heart out of my mouth and crushed it with hatred.

Without warning.

Five seconds, or fifteen seconds, or thirty-five seconds, I finally reacted. I jumped almost to the window, screaming and reaching out to grab him, but I only caught a piece of nothingness.

Tears were rolling in the eyes.

We always laugh at the word "death" on our lips.

But if someone really dies.

Don't you feel like you're missing something?

10.

"That'...... That's when I set up my computer to update automatically on a regular basis. ”

I said as I pulled out my phone.

"Oh, you finally wrote Tao Qiwu to death."

Yang Xinyue bit the spoon and looked at the articles on her phone, shaking her head from time to time.

"But if you write about your friend like that, he won't really be fine, will he?"

I shook my head, rubbed my eyes lightly with my fingers, and then pulled the skin on my neck, feeling like I had been punched in the chest.

As I was flipping through it, the phone's caller ID interrupted the scrolling text.

"Hey, Auntie, it's me."

11.

Hanging up the phone, this feeling is like just jumping off pole, weak to the point of collapse.

My hands trembled, and Yang Xinyue looked at me as if she wanted to laugh, but she didn't laugh.

She reached over and took my hand.

But I didn't stop shaking because of her tender, smooth and warm hands.

My hands were still shaking, and my palms were oozing cold sweat and wet.

It was a horror in the heart.

"What's wrong with you?" Yang Xinyue's hand strained slightly, "When you answer the phone, you shake like this, you are still a man in his thirties!" Not calm at all. ”

I grabbed her hand and said, "It's okay." ”

"You're lying again."

"Nope."

We fell silent, and the Korean songs playing in the restaurant were very energetic, like chanting. I think we have been silent for a long time, and I have long lost the concept of time in my head.

When I calmed down, I noticed that her face was pale. I patted the back of her hand and smiled at her, a smile that should be better than crying.

"Did your friend have an accident?"

"Of course not."

I withdrew my hand and said, "I'm in a bit of a hurry and can't eat with you." ”

"Still lying."

"Little girl, I really didn't lie to you."

I moved my chair back and stood up slightly.

Just as I was going downstairs, she shouted behind me, "Her name is Zhao Wenxiao, dashing Xiao." ”

Text: Episode 14 -End-