1.

Cao Chengrui walked out of the Ophthalmology Branch of the Third Hospital of the Medical University and took a deep breath.

It had just rained, and it was still hot and muggy, with a faint smell of earth in the humid air.

He quickened his pace and walked towards the light rail station. He was going to take the light rail and then transfer to the subway to find Tao Qiwu. The streets are full of cars and bustle.

After a while, Cao Chengrui, who was sitting on the light rail, was enjoying the air conditioning in the carriage while lowering his head and swiping Weibo with his mobile phone.

Opposite him sat a beautiful young girl.

As soon as he got in the car, Cao Chengrui noticed this girl, with shoulder-length short hair, pure and cute.

Cao Chengrui knows that whether people are beautiful or not has nothing to do with him. He has a girlfriend, his girlfriend is in Beijing, and his girlfriend may come to Songbai City to find him.

Three foreign men sat on the seats in the middle aisle from Cao Chengrui. White skin and brown hair, I can't tell which nationality I am. In Cao Chengrui's eyes, all Europeans and Americans look the same, all Indians and people in the Middle East look the same, and Southeast Asians look the same.

Three foreign men also noticed the girl.

One of them greeted the girl with a smile and sat down on the empty seat next to the girl.

Cao Chengrui raised his eyes and looked at it, like acquaintances meeting.

"What are you going to do?" The girl moved to the side of the window, and the foreign man said something quickly, and moved to the girl's side, then gestured, pointing at the girl and then at his chest.

Cao Chengrui put down his phone and looked at the two people opposite.

The sun outside the car shone into the car, and Cao Chengrui could even see the foreign man's hair shining with golden light.

The foreign man stretched out his hand to the girl, and the girl was obviously frightened and hurriedly stood up, and the foreign man was also quick and grabbed the girl's wrist.

"Let go!" The girl shook off vigorously and walked to the door of the car in a few steps.

All three foreign men stood up and followed.

One of them, the tallest bearded foreigner, shook his head and said word by word in Chinese: "Don't be afraid, we are all teachers, he wants to know you, we want to be friends with you." ”

"But I don't want to know you!" The girl glared at the foreign man tugging at her.

The foreign man who spoke Chinese looked surprised, made an exaggerated expression and said, "Don't you Chinese girls like us?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the foreign man reached for the girl's shoulder strap.

"What are you going to do!" The girl screamed.

There were men and women, old and young, and everyone looked at the girl at the door and three foreigners.

At the junction of the carriages, a middle-aged woman laughed twice with a "haha" for no reason.

The girl broke free of the foreign man's hand, took out her mobile phone from her bag and shouted, "I've taken a picture of you!" ”

Seeing this, the foreign man who spoke Chinese laughed and pointed at the girl: "You, such a fool! ”

"You're a fucking fool, brute!" The girl's face turned pale and she whispered while recording the video with her mobile phone.

"Hahaha!" The middle-aged woman next to her also laughed with the foreigner after hearing the conversation between the girl and the foreign man, and said, "This foreigner will still say stupid, haha!" ”

Cao Chengrui looked at the girl as if he had looked at himself a few times, and he was about to cry when he was so aggrieved and helpless. Although he felt very uncomfortable in his heart, he didn't dare to stand up.

The train entered the station, and the moment the door opened, the girl rushed out of the door, and the three foreigners also walked out of the carriage slowly, laughing as they walked.

Cao Chengrui watched the girl run quickly to the turnstile and then disappear from his sight.

"Let's go! It's good to fight with foreigners!? The middle-aged woman said to the middle-aged man next to her.

The middle-aged man nodded in agreement: "Everywhere we go, we are facing foreigners, we have no place to reason." ”

Cao Chengrui also secretly claimed that if Fang Cai himself stood up to stop these foreigners, maybe he would be beaten again, there are many foreigners, and they are still tall and big, and his body is vulnerable in front of others. And even if he was beaten, he would definitely have no place to reason.

He thought: Patience is over.

2.

The subway roared in, and Cao Chengrui ran to catch up with him and got into the carriage. The transfer station is always up and down like a maze, with stairs after stairs. Fortunately, he was dressed in coarse linen clothes and cloth shoes, so he ran lightly. As the subway went away, the bustling platform deserted.

Cao Chengrui walked out of the subway and faced a heat wave.

The above-ground and the underground are two completely different worlds.

"Where are you?" Cao Chengrui dialed Tao Qiwu's phone.

"In Taohuatun Park, it's cool by the small lake, come over quickly." Tao Qiwu replied.

Taohuatun is on the south side of People's Square, bypassing the square turntable, and it takes less than ten minutes to walk.

Cao Chengrui didn't go far into the park when he saw Tao Qiwu sitting in the shade of a tree by the lotus pond, with a few plastic bags at his feet and a few beers.

"It's all done with the hospital surgery?" Tao Qiwu watched Cao Chengrui sit down.

"Well, it's over, and it's a long time to toss." Cao Chengrui pulled the plastic bag with his hand to see that there were spicy duck goods and roast chicken.

The two of them each opened a beer and looked at the lotus pond.

The summer rain comes and goes as quickly as it comes, and after the rain the sun comes out, and it is wet and hot.

"What's going on at your unit?" Cao Chengrui asked after taking a sip of beer.

Tao Qiwu raised his hand and rubbed his nose: "It's done, as long as I don't want to do it, no one can stop me." ”

"It's good for the two of us, we have nothing to do, and the unemployed vagrant is a good one." Cao Chengrui took another sip of beer.

"You came home to see your parents yesterday?" Tao Qiwu asked.

"Yes, you complained about me as soon as we met, and I was really scolded." Cao Chengrui replied.

The two chatted like this.

After drinking wine and eating chicken, it was already getting late.

"Either you can go to my house and live, and don't go home. I'll stir-fry two dishes, and we'll drink some more. Tao Qiwu stood up and stretched his muscles.

Cao Chengrui nodded and stood up as well.

17:14。

The two of them packed up the garbage on the ground and threw it into the trash can, then left Taohuatun and walked towards the bus stop.

If you want to talk about this daytime time, walking, walking, hurrying past.

3.

20:37。

Tao Qiwu fried a plate of dried tofu with sharp peppers.

Some places also call this dish stir-fried bean skin with sharp peppers. China is really vast, "dried tofu", "dried tofu", "tofu skin" and so on, each place has a different name. Two completely different things have the same name, or they have the same name but are not the same thing at all.

In addition to this dish, there is also a plate of fried peanuts on the table.

The two of them mainly drank wine, but they couldn't eat anything.

"I'll go back to my hometown tomorrow for two days, and you can live here honestly." Tao Qiwu opened the beer and handed it to Cao Chengrui.

Cao Chengrui took a sip and nodded: "Okay, I will concentrate on seeing the results of your 'cultivation' in the past few days when you go home." ”

"What is the result? I work morning and evening shifts day and night, and I don't have much time to write. Tao Qiwu sighed and continued: "You can turn out what I wrote before and read it." ”

Cao Chengrui's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he suddenly became interested: "Do you remember what we talked about before?" Cao Chengrui moved his chair forward and said, "Let's sort out the short stories and novellas we have written, and make a long novel." ”

"Remember, in fact, I started tidying up a long time ago, but I don't have enough time and energy, I'm always tired, I can't sleep well, and my eyes are uncomfortable." Cao Chengrui didn't know how long Tao Qiwu had been tormented by insomnia, and it was only a few days before he eased up.

Tao Qiwu took a sip of wine and said, "It's okay now, with you, I have a lot of time now." ”

"Yes, then I'll start tomorrow." Cao Chengrui grinned and looked at Tao Qiwu.

The night did not drive away the heat waves, but the air became more and more "viscous", Tao Qiwu's whole body was slimy, and it was very uncomfortable.

"Seriously, I haven't published an article in so many years, and even that kind of pure love magazine with the blood of a teenager doesn't want me to write anything." Tao Qiwu wiped his face with his left hand and said: "I can't be famous, I can't make a lot of money, and I can't marry her as a daughter-in-law." ”

"Come, drink." Cao Chengrui raised the wine bottle and touched Tao Qiwu.

Tao Qiwu raised his head and took a big sip, and sighed: "I'm not like you, I can go south and north, and I can still publish my own articles." ”

"Don't you know me yet? I'm not easy either! Cao Chengrui put down the wine bottle, took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes.

Tao Qiwu nodded silently.

"It's not easy." Cao Cheng Ruifu put on his glasses again.

"At least you've been to a lot of places! I've seen a lot of people and landscapes, and you've written about it in magazines. Tao Qiwu tore off the label attached to the beer bottle with his hand and muttered, "But what do you think about me? ”

Cao Chengrui couldn't figure out why Tao Qiwu said this for a while, so he didn't say anything, and looked at Tao Qiwu quietly. Could it be that he is like this because he is out of love? Or is it because of a frustration at work? He thought that only Tao Qiwu himself knew.

"Have you ever killed someone?" Tao Qiwu asked suddenly.

Cao Chengrui was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and then frowned and asked, "Did you drink too much?" ”

"I didn't drink much." Tao Qiwu also shook his head.

Cao Chengrui, who grabbed a handful of peanuts, stopped talking, nor did he put the peanuts in his mouth, but just stared at Tao Qiwu.

"Have you ever killed someone?" Tao Qiwu asked again, and when he said the word "death", his body shook involuntarily.

Cao Chengrui stretched and looked up at the lamp overhead.

To say killing, he suddenly thought of the girl he had met on the light rail during the day.

At that time, the three foreigners followed the girl out of the car, caught up with the girl, grabbed her, and no matter how she shouted, passers-by would look on coldly like him Cao Chengrui: because they were afraid of trouble and didn't care about this "idle matter".

The girl was knocked unconscious by the three tall foreigners, and was helped into a taxi, and the foreigner who could speak Chinese said to the taxi driver: "This is our friend, she has drunk too much, we will send her." ”

The taxi driver glanced at the girl in the rearview mirror and grinned wickedly.

He's seen this kind of thing too much, young girls like to sleep with foreign men, and this one should be no exception.

"So where are we going now?" The taxi driver turned to the foreigner who was sitting in the passenger seat and could speak Chinese.

The Chinese-speaking foreigner frowned, thought for a while and replied, "Let's go to the Xingyue Hotel on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, it's not very far from here." ”

The taxi driver nodded.

It's only a few streets away and it's not long before you get to the hotel.

Pay to get off.

Foreigners who can still speak Chinese are at the forefront.

The female cashier at the front desk of the hotel knew this foreigner who could speak Chinese, and he often brought female students from the nearby Chinese Business School to open a room here.

"Sir, do you still want a romantic round bed room?" The female cashier squeezed out a friendly smile and asked in a coquettish voice.

The foreigner who spoke Chinese nodded: "Yes." Then he smiled at the cashier gentlemanly and said, "You are so beautiful today." ”

This small hotel is not a "foreign-related hotel", and there is no need to register the identity information of guests, and there are many such express hotels and small inns around the university. I think that's why foreigners who can speak Chinese choose this hotel.

After paying, the foreigner who had been the first to talk to her helped the girl to the elevator and went to room 3015.

The other two left the hotel laughing.

No one found anything unusual along the way, because everyone had the same idea as Cao Chengrui: more is better than less. And it's not unusual for a foreigner to open a room with a Chinese girl, especially near this private-run university.

20:37。

Humiliated, the girl jumped naked from the window at the end of the corridor.

She fell heavily to the ground from the third floor, her young flesh convulsing and convulsing.

Cao Chengrui thought: If he had stood up and stopped the foreigner at that time, even if he was beaten, he would have been able to save the girl. But he didn't. That's how the girl was killed by him. The lamp above his head suddenly flashed, and Cao Chengrui came back to his senses and retracted his thoughts.

He wondered if he had drunk too much. This strange thought startled all of him. "Three-zero-one-five" he even thought of the room number. However, what I just thought can be used in the novel, and I will write what I just thought after drinking. Inspiration is fleeting.

Tao Qiwu saw him in a daze, so he didn't ask anymore and drank with his head bored. Today's wine is very stuffy, not like yesterday in the hot pot restaurant, talking eloquently, although there is also a small situation. I didn't expect to drink too much yesterday, but today's stuffy wine made Tao Qiwu drink too much, he was depressed in his heart, but he didn't know exactly why he was depressed, and there were too many disobediences that made him annoyed.

After drinking, Tao Qiwu fell into bed and fell asleep.

Cao Chengrui sat in front of the computer.

4.

9:37。

Cao Chengrui opened his eyes, and there was only himself in the room.

I found my mobile phone and called Tao Qiwu, only to know that he was already on the bus back to his hometown.

In the past few days, Cao Chengrui's girlfriend Li Ling in Beijing has not sent him a single message. When a woman is ruthless, it is really ruthless, and it is true and not fake. He walked to the bathroom and sat on the toilet, habitually swiping Weibo with his mobile phone.

There are several well-known "bloggers" in every city, and Songbai is no exception, the first one is explosive news, with more than 1,000 comments: A young woman committed suicide by jumping off a building in a hotel in Dongdao District last night, and the police have controlled the relevant people involved.

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