Text: Episode 17

1.

On October 26, it was cloudy.

12:32。

As soon as the heating starts in the north, the air becomes cloudy.

The sky was gray, and the ground seemed to be covered with a gray-black blanket. The grass and trees downstairs are withered and yellow, and the old man who is walking and playing cards is also trapped in it because of the cold.

Sitting in front of the computer, hands on the keyboard and overwhelmed. I was so upset that I didn't know what to write.

"As you can see from your novels, your heart is as big as a needle's nose! Do you always want to write to death the people around you who make you unhappy in the article? ”

Suddenly thinking of what Yi Yao said, it was a little interesting.

2.

I attended Tao Qiwu's funeral.

Friends and relatives gave him a cursory look, and then he was wheeled into the cremation room.

With the green smoke gone, he became a handful of ashes so easily.

The sky was clear, and there were large expanses of clouds.

I walked out of the funeral home and hailed a taxi, thought about it and said the name of a mall. I don't know why I went to that mall.

Thinking of the scene of Tao Qiwu jumping from the window in front of me, I feel empty in my heart, and I want to go to a place where there are many people.

I got out of the car after thirty minutes, and sure enough, I was not disappointed.

The pedestrian street is crowded, the shops on the street play noisy songs, the advertising lights are flashing, the huge LED billboards change the image, the women scratch their heads, and the men look happy.

I sat by the window facing Burger King, didn't order anything, and quietly looked out the window at the street.

Tao Qiwu disappeared from my life like this.

While I was in a daze, a white Audi A7 parked in the window parking space, blocking my view.

A familiar figure stepped out of the car.

3.

13:31。

Cao Chengrui habitually rubbed the skin in front of his throat with his hand.

It's his signature move.

From a very young age, he began to tug at the skin in front of his throat, he always felt an itch on his neck, and if the neckline of his clothes was a little tighter, he would feel uncomfortable. Even when you sleep, put your hands around your neck. He even once thought that his throat was cut and killed in his previous life, so his neck is particularly sensitive in this life.

He craned his neck and stared at the words on the computer screen, with a nervous strangeness.

The text on the document was typed out by his own hand for an hour, and the paragraphs and every punctuation mark came from his hand.

But now, he inexplicably felt that these words were not from his hand.

"If I had written it, the plot wouldn't have been like this."

Cao Chengrui seemed to hear someone talking in his ear, but he knew that Li Ling was not at home at the moment, and she went shopping.

"The voice of the heart." He thought so.

The mobile phone prompt of "ding" was Jiang Hong's message, asking him to come out to eat skewers at night and introduce him to a little girl.

"I don't want to eat skewers today." Cao Chengrui finished replying and threw the phone back on the table.

Upset and irritable.

4.

On November 5th, it was sunny, 12 degrees above zero.

Recently, Cao Chengrui's writing progress has been very slow, and he can only write a few hundred words a day.

It was almost on the verge of stopping.

But it's strange that there are still thousands of words of chapters updated on the site every day. Cao Chengrui thought that this should be Li Ling's credit.

For a moment, he wanted to create a character like Yi Yao in the novel, and then torture her with words, ravage her, and finally write her to death.

But if he does, his "heart and eyes" will really be the same as a needle nose.

5.

I comforted Yang Xinyue.

She told me that Zhao Wenxiao called her and Yi Yao for help on the day of the accident, but Yi Yao was taking her to play in the bar, and Yi Yao didn't take it seriously at all, and she also took Zhao Wenxiao's words as a prank under the influence of alcohol. But in hindsight, Zhao Wenxiao is not the kind of person who would make such jokes.

"I know that her death is not directly related to me and Yi Yao, but I really felt very happy when I first learned about her death."

Yang Xinyue's face turned pale, and tears rolled in her eyes.

"I was wrong, I know I was wrong."

She finally couldn't hold back her tears.

It's not her to blame, it's human nature to be selfish. Babies do not give up their mother's breasts to other children when feeding. Selfishness can guarantee survival, this is human nature. But does that have anything to do with selfishness? My head was a mess of paste.

"It's not your fault, even if you want to blame, you should blame Yi Yao." I stroked Yang Xinyue's hair: "She took you to the bar, she made you drink so much to make your little head not sober, all this is to blame on her." ”

Yang Xinyue sobbed.

I patted her on the back and said, "Don't cry, even if Zhao Wenxiao really wants to find someone to pay for her life, she can't find you, and you didn't kill her." I thought for a moment and then said, "What's more, how can there be any ghost in this world?" It's all people who come up with it. ”

It took a long time for me to get her to stop crying.

She gave me a wet kiss in return.

Soft tongue.

6.

Cao Chengrui returned home from Yang Xinyue's school, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw Li Ling standing at the door wearing shoes.

Li Ling was wearing a white turtleneck, a black miniskirt, black bottoms, and a pair of shiny little studs on her ears. She put on her shoes and picked up her bag, looked at Cao Chengrui and said, "I'll go out for a while and come back in the evening." ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Don't worry! I'm not out looking for wild men. ”

"Haha." Cao Chengrui laughed dryly twice and looked at Li Ling's back.

Since October 31, five days ago, there have been intermittent cries from the next door from eight o'clock in the evening to three or four in the morning.

It wasn't a moan of love, a simple cry. It's so miserable, it's heartbreaking.

Every night.

Cao Chengrui sat in front of the computer, looking at the beer bottle in his hand, he still couldn't write a word. The next door started crying, which upset him even more.

Finally, he couldn't take it anymore, got up and walked to the wall, hammered the wall with both hands and shouted, "Can you be quiet?!" ”

"Don't shout, who is a normal person who is crying and screaming at home when it's okay? Mostly a poor man. Li Ling was closing the door and taking off her shoes.

"You're back."

"Hmm."

"I can't stand it anymore, I cry and scream every day! This is a nuisance! ”

Li Ling first threw the bag on the sofa, and then carefully placed a few shopping bags on the coffee table.

"Going shopping again?" Cao Chengrui tugged at his neck.

"Bought a few winter clothes." After Li Ling finished speaking, she took out a black down jacket from one of the shopping bags and said, "Look, I bought it for you." ”

"I've got something to wear."

"That one of yours is outdated, and my future great writer will have to wear it beautifully." She said: "Handsome. ”

Cao Chengrui's eyes darkened, and he barely squeezed out a smile: "I can't write anything recently." ”

Li Ling smiled: "Who said that?" You've written great chapters lately! Believe in yourself! ”

Cao Chengrui didn't know if Li Ling said this on purpose, she should know his recent situation, and the recent text was from her Li Ling's hand.

"I believe in you."

7.

14:41。

I stood at the door of the house next door with a heart that was both angry and worried.

Although Li Ling persuaded me yesterday, because I was woken up by crying in the middle of the night, I pondered for a morning, and I had to come and see what was going on in this family.

Taking a deep breath, I raised my hand and knocked on the door.

"Who!?"

"Hello, I'm a neighbor who lives in the unit next door to you."

There was no sound in the room for a long time, and I was about to raise my hand again to knock on the door when the door was pushed open from the inside. Behind the door stood a lean woman, and I was afraid that she would break her arms or legs if she tried too hard.

"Hello." I swallowed and said.

"What's the matter?"

After a little thought, I got straight to the point and said, "Your family cries and makes trouble every night......"

"Wife, who is it?"

Before I could finish speaking, a man came out from behind the woman, or was it a boy? He is only about one meter four or five tall, and he looks like a child in his early tens.

"Neighbors."

The woman looked down at him and replied.

I was so embarrassed by the scene in front of me, I licked my lips and said, "I just wanted to come and talk to you if I can be quiet at night." ”

"You think we don't want to?" The dwarf man crossed his left hand on his waist and put his right hand on the woman's body and said, "But this is not something we can control. ”

"What does that mean?"

I had a rough idea of what could be possible.

"There are sick people at home." The woman continued: "My daughter has a new boyfriend, and after they came back from their date last week, she started sleeping during the day and crying and fussing at night. ”

I couldn't speak for a while, this woman looked like she was in her early thirties, and the men couldn't tell how old they were, but their daughter was old enough to deal with someone? Is it puppy love?

"That's right......," I didn't know what to say, nodding in thought, "I'd better take it to the hospital." ”

"I'm really embarrassed to disturb everyone." The dwarf man said with an apologetic face: "Look at me like this, this doesn't move my daughter, why don't you help?" We had wanted to take her to the hospital for a long time. ”

He looked at me with a pleading look.

8.

I really can't put my mind on the nagging of dwarf men.

Because the girl in front of me really surprised me.

She looked fifteen or sixteen years old, with short hair like an ordinary high school girl, she looked about 1.68 meters tall, her skin was very white, and her facial features were upright.

How could these two give birth to such a healthy child?

I may have been preconceived as well.

"Doesn't she go to school?" I asked.

"I'm sick from school." The dwarf father replied.

"You're still a high school student, right? Is it the object? ”

"I can't do it." The woman sighed.

The little girl didn't pay attention to me, an outsider, and took her own mobile phone to type with the nine-square grid input method, those words were meaningless, she sometimes pressed from 2 to 9, and pressed it indiscriminately.

The nine-square grid intelligent input method can type text even if you press it randomly.

For example, her mobile phone screen now shows "People sleeping under the armpits in the polar region of Sina District".

I touched her arm lightly, and she looked up at me, nodding and smiling at me like an acquaintance. Naturally, I reciprocated with an amiable smile and said, "Would you like to go to the hospital with my brother and mom and dad?" You can't do that. ”

I thought she would be resistant, but things went unexpectedly well.

She nodded obediently, put the phone back in her pants pocket, and obediently put on her coat.

Both men and women looked at me with surprise on their faces.

"Big brother." I stopped the dwarf man walking behind the mother and daughter and said, "I think you should find that little boyfriend of hers." I think there's something strange about that. He nodded, and I smiled good-naturedly.

Text: Episode 17 -End-