Text: Episode 16

1.

Who am I?

2.

I attended Tao Qiwu's funeral.

Relatives and friends glanced at him hastily, and then he was pushed into an ordinary cremation furnace, which was not a high-grade crematorium.

As the smoke passed, he became a handful of ashes.

I saw Ma Ting standing in the crowd all the time, quietly looking ahead, not knowing what she was thinking.

"I didn't dare to look at him." I said to Yang Ying beside me.

"Why?" Yang Ying asked, holding Cao Chengrui's shoulders, her whole chest pressed against his arm.

"Because he fell to his death because your brother pushed him downstairs. My face was shattered. ”

"You're talking nonsense."

3.

Li Ling's hand twitching as she tapped on the keyboard, and she didn't understand why the name Yang Ying popped up in her head. She closed her eyes and began to search her memory for any information about "Yang Ying".

The result was nothing.

It's like being in a dream world: the streets are full of people, and they all have names.

But the dreamer never remembers the passers-by he has seen in his dreams.

"Tao Qiwu committed suicide by jumping off a building because he was suffering from depression." Li Ling thought in her heart repeatedly, and the mouse wheel slid upward, looking at the words that had been typed out in the past.

"How could I have thought that Yang Ying's brother pushed him downstairs." She muttered to herself as she flipped upwards.

"Are you confusing the plot of the novel with reality?" Cao Chengrui heard Li Ling muttering in front of the computer, and then walked to her side and asked.

Li Ling looked back at Cao Chengrui and was puzzled: "What do you mean by this?" ”

"Because Lao Tao was indeed injured by a mentally ill person, and the patient's name is Yang Ying."

"Oh, I remember." Li Ling suddenly realized.

4.

October 22nd.

22:47, minus 3 degrees.

There is already a taste of winter.

Southerners can't understand the love and hate of northerners for heating.

Every winter there are two kinds of people: one who praises the warmth of the house and can be bare-chested; The other is to curse the heating company for collecting money and the heat is not up to standard.

Listening to the sound of "gurgling" water in the radiator, Cao Chengrui picked up his mobile phone.

It was a message from Yang Xinyue.

He glanced back at Li Ling, who was sitting intently typing in front of the computer, and then clicked on the message.

5.

October 25, 10:26.

I had insomnia all night last night.

Because of lack of sleep, the tired body sweats profusely, and the heart beats fast and slow.

When it was almost dawn, I had a dream, and I dreamed again.

Long hallways with tall floor-to-ceiling windows on one side and miscellaneous items on the other, iron staircases and white walls, and long tables next to filing cabinets.

There was a leftover lunch box on the table, as well as a transparent carafe. A dying pothos tree is stuck in a water bottle, and the water is cloudy. Floor-to-ceiling windows are the Century Hung Yuen and Anhua Towers, as well as several other office buildings. The sunlight shines through the gap between the buildings, and it is warm. The mop was still dripping from the bucket standing on the side of the mop had just been mopped.

"Tick...... Tick ......"

I sat under the floor-to-ceiling windows, squinting in the sun.

It was really warm.

The walkie-talkie placed at his feet suddenly rang: "The goods are coming, push the flatbed truck to pick it up." ”

I said and stood up, walked out the corner of the hallway, and saw her.

She was not tall, with fair skin and a pure expression like a child.

"I'll accompany you to pick up the goods."

"No, I can do it myself, how can I let the little girl do the heavy work?"

She blushed and smiled.

When I looked up again, I was standing in front of the freight elevator.

The elevator room was dimly lit, so I pushed the flatbed cart and pressed the elevator.

After a "ding dong", the elevator door slowly opened, and only a cable hung at the bottom of the elevator.

hesitated to get on the elevator, but his feet stepped on it without heeding.

The elevator swayed and descended slowly.

I found that there were no elevator doors on every floor, as if it was under construction, with exposed reinforced concrete and hollow bricks.

Worried, the elevator finally got stuck between the two floors.

I can't go up to the world or the ground, and if I want to get out, I can only climb out.

"What are we going to do?" She stood beside me, nervously holding my hand.

I smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'm here." ”

Don't worry, I'm here.

But I was scared too. Beneath was a bottomless abyss, and when I looked up, there was only a jiggling cable. I think I'm going to climb up to the floor first.

Pull back and run, and jump up.

The stairwell in front of me is very strange, only the upward stairs have been repaired, the downward stairs have not been repaired, looking down, you can directly see the appearance of the next few floors, and the height of the shelves between the floors is about five meters. I can only go up.

One step, two steps...... Turning the corner of the stairs, the stairs in front of me were broken, and only the handrails were connected.

The steel staircase handrails reflected silver light, and I climbed for fear of falling down.

"Keep it up, it's almost there."

She shouted above me.

I felt really embarrassed, I had no face, and I really wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

I was so powerless and embarrassed in front of her, that I could only hang on the handrail of the stairs like a monkey.

"Come on!"

Ma Ting beckoned at me.

I finally climbed up and met her with open arms.

I hugged her.

6.

After returning from Tao Qiwu's funeral, Cao Chengrui can always dream of Ma Ting and Tao Qiwu's ex-girlfriend.

He sat on the bed, and the room was cold.

"Who the hell am I?"

The scene in the dream was so real that he even began to wonder whether he was Tao Qiwu or Cao Chengrui.

7.

Embarrassment is a wonderful mental activity.

First it was very conflicted, then it was embarrassing, then it was confused, and finally the heart was racing and wanted to run away, and so the change was only a matter of moments.

The sun is setting, and the sky is getting late.

Just now, I tripped over my left foot and fell to the ground with my right foot, which happened to be seen by several female college students who were buying popcorn on the side of the road, and they were laughing.

The wind suddenly became cold. Winter is approaching. I don't think I'll be able to find anyone to drink with until dawn during the Spring Festival this year.

I got up with a red face, my pants digging through my knees.

Ignoring the pain, I hurried into the restaurant that sold omelet rice.

On the second floor, by the window, Yang Xinyue was already sitting there waiting for me, and there was a girl sitting next to her. She wears a white turtleneck sweater and short ear-length hair with green dyed ends. There are three studs on the lobes of both ears. Shrewd eyes, lilac lips.

"You're finally willing to see me?" Yang Xinyue pouted and looked at me and said, "I'll listen to you obediently!" Didn't you say that you should never be ambiguous with a man you don't like! So I won't contact Jiang Hong! She stopped and smiled at me, thought for a moment and said to me, "But I'll contact you." ”

"Ahem." I coughed twice, pulled out a chair and sat down, looked at the girl in the white sweater and asked, "Who is this?" ”

"My roommate Yi Yao, I am in the same bedroom with her and Xiaoxiao."

"You are Cao Chengrui?" Yi Yao stared at me sideways in a boyish manner.

I was stared at by her very uncomfortable: "Hello, I am Cao Chengrui." ”

Yi Yao lowered her eyebrows and glanced at me after listening to me, the corners of her mouth rose slightly, and her face was full of contempt. She took the menu and shouted, "Waiter! Ordered! ”

I really don't know what made me look at me that way. I subconsciously pulled out my phone to see what was wrong with my face.

Slightly fat, after Tao Qiwu died, I changed to a "wolf running" hairstyle, black-framed glasses, just shaved before going out, and looked very haggard because of insomnia.

"Two servings of this bacon sirloin steak, two servings of golden omelet rice, and this ten-inch pastoral pizza, tuna potato salad, french fries, cured meat rolls, golden lemon chicken wings, European style chicken nuggets, and borscht two examples...... Also green plum jasmine tea. "Yi Yao is familiar with the road, I just doubt that I can finish eating so much.

Just as I was thinking about it, the menu was thrown in front of me, Yi Yao nodded the menu with her chin and said, "You can order what you eat!" ”

I continued to demonstrate embarrassment with a cough: "I'm going to ...... This volcanic fried rice. ”

"Is there anything else you need, sir? I think that's enough for three people. "The waitress was sweet.

I nodded, and it occurred to me, "I want a bottle of Corona and a lemon." ”

"Hmph." Yi Yao snorted softly.

I don't know why, my heart was racing, my throat was dry, and I wanted to drink beer. After glancing at Yi Yao, I began to hate her inexplicably.

"Haha." Yang Xinyue also found the atmosphere awkward, and said with a smile: "We usually have a very good relationship. ”

"You can accompany me to pick up the car tomorrow, it should be maintained." Yi Yao raised her hand and took out her glasses from the backpack behind her, and it could be seen that they were matched in Songbai "Cheng Peng Wanli", and a cheap pair of glasses cost five or six thousand yuan. I paid special attention to the Longines watch on her wrist, the black strap, the small rectangular dial with Roman numerals, and the diamonds on both sides, which cost more than twenty-seven or eighty, to say the least.

I think she must be a typical rich girl or a money worshipper who follows a rich "godfather". Most of them are the former, domineering.

"You can get on the ground in a taxi." Yi Yao took out her glasses and put them on, only to realize that they were just glasses frames, and there were no lenses.

"Haha, the horse stumbled." I accosted.

"Brother Cao, don't be surprised, she is such a speaking style, but she is not a bad person." Yang Xinyue said on the side, picking up the cup and pouring a glass of lemonade for Yi Yao.

Under Yi Yao's gaze, I was always uncomfortable and very worried. I hate people who can "pretend" very well, and even if they are really rich and powerful, they should be low-key and friendly. But in this world, there are most people who are not low-key and friendly.

After a while, the cups and plates are listed.

"Yue'er, didn't you tell me that you brought your friends with you, if you said that you would bring your friends, I would burn incense and bathe first." I took a sip of beer.

"It's not clear in the message." Yang Xinyue wiped the knife, fork and spoon with a tissue in turn: "I've been dreaming of Xiaoxiao again recently. After that, he pointed at Yi Yao again: "She often dreams of Xiaoxiao, and she dreams that Xiaoxiao is still in the bedroom." ”

I frowned, and that was the important thing she was saying in her message.

"Is it because of the pressure of the recent course tightness?"

8.

There are two ways to walk from Building G to Building B of the women's dormitory, and the distance is about the same, and you have to cross a small river from west to east in the school, and you have to cross two bridges respectively.

On the north bank of the creek there is a small square, behind which is the main building of the branch college.

On the south bank of the creek is a dense wooded area where many couples hug each other in the summer.

The north gate of the school is the main road of Songbai City, and a viaduct section of the expressway is being built. The construction day and night was chaotic and smoky. Since last week, there have been rumors on campus that a second-year girl majoring in Chinese as a foreign language was raped by someone from outside the school. Although the school came forward to refute the rumors, it became more and more black.

Yang Xinyue, Yi Yao and Zhao Wenxiao walked out of the teaching building together, and the three girls were discussing.

A few construction workers in gray overalls walked past the school building with cigarettes in their mouths, and when they saw a girl looking at them, they smiled kindly at the three girls.

"I don't think it's true." Yang Xinyue looked at the backs of the workers who went away.

"It's hard to say." Yi Yao pouted and said, "How about we go to the bar for a drink tonight?" ”

"Okay!" Yang Xinyue nodded excitedly.

"I'm not going, there are club activities in the evening." Zhao Wenxiao said with a smile.

"Then you should be safe! If someone wants to rape you, don't resist, just close your eyes and enjoy it. Yi Yao smiled evilly, Zhao Wenxiao pursed her mouth and didn't say anything, but Yang Xinyue raised her hand and pinched her.

Yang Xinyue looked up and found that she had unconsciously come to the river, and from the bridge, a couple was standing by the river kissing.

The boy was probably in a good mood, and he hugged the girl in a circle, and the girl's mobile phone flew out of his pocket and fell into the river with a "poof".

"Haha!" Yang Xinyue couldn't help but laugh.

"Haha."

Someone laughed behind Yang Xinyue.

She looked back and saw only a black back.

It wasn't until Zhao Wenxiao called her that she came back to her senses.

A few people walked downstairs to the dormitory, and were chatting about something interesting, Yang Xinyue laughed happily again.

Behind her, someone laughed with her.

Yang Xinyue subconsciously turned around, still with her black back, standing in the bushes opposite the dormitory building.

It was getting late, and the two of them spent some time dressing up, and Yang Xinyue turned around in front of the mirror with satisfaction.

"Let's stop driving! Because I'm going to drink! ”

Yi Yao has a veritable nickname: the little princess of the nightclub.

Yang Xinyue nodded and went downstairs cautiously, because she was wearing high heels, she looked at the steps carefully at every step.

Yi Yao trotted ahead of her, and after a while she was gone.

The stairs were long and steep, and it was very difficult for her to walk in her high heels. The lights in the stairwell flashed, turning from white to green, and from green to blue.

As she descends the last staircase, a huge video wall on the right plays a commercial for beer.

"Xiaoxiao?" Yang Xinyue shouted, and the figure standing by the TV wall turned his face.

Zhao Wenxiao was crying, her face full of tears.

"What's wrong?" Yang Xinyue walked over quickly and grabbed Zhao Wenxiao's hand.

Yang Xinyue was very conflicted in her heart, she felt very heartbroken when she saw Zhao Wenxiao crying, but behind the heartache was full of pleasure.

"I was deceived." Zhao Wenxiao cried and said.

"Scammed?"

The inexplicable pleasure was even stronger.

"Hmm."

"What's going on?" Zhao Wenxiao lowered her head and sobbed, and Yang Xinyue patted her shoulder.

Zhao Wenxiao didn't speak, she raised her head slowly, and Yang Xinyue saw that she was grinning silently.

"Haha."

Someone laughed behind Yang Xinyue.

She looked back and saw a black figure standing half a meter behind her.

As if sensing the danger, Yang Xinyue shook off Zhao Wenxiao's hand and pushed her back two steps.

"It's that they have been following me, I just called you, why didn't you come to save me......" Zhao Wenxiao pointed to the black back without a head.

Yang Xinyue looked in the direction of her finger, and the black back had already turned into three men.

They were tall and strong, and staggered as if they had drunk too much.

"I'll call you and Yi Yao......"

Yang Xinyue popped up the word "run" in her mind, and she didn't care about the high heels she was wearing on her feet, so she wiped her head and ran. She thought in her heart that Xiaoxiao was good-looking and in good shape, just look for her, don't chase her.

"Haha."

The light in front of her flickered on and off, white, pink, purple, blue, green, and yellow intertwined. Many people can't see their looks clearly. She separated the crowd with a beer bottle in one hand and another in the other.

Every time I look back, I can see that the three people are following me without hurry.

Where did Yi Yao go? She thought as she ran.

Yang Xinyue couldn't find an exit, and her heart became more and more nervous and anxious.

Where exactly is the exit?

9.

"Yue'er!" Yi Yao held a wine glass under a blue lamp.

The fruit platter on the table also glows with blue light.

Yi Yao's face is also blue.

"Where did you go? Come and drink wow! Yi Yao shouted, her blue wine glass and blue face swaying.

Yang Xinyue didn't want to go over, but her legs didn't obey, she got closer and closer to the blue face, and she could see Yi Yao's eyes, the light and shadow fluctuated, changing colors.

"Drink with me!" Yi Yao slammed the wine bottle in Yang Xinyue's hand with her glass.

"Did you see Xiaoxiao?"

"Xiaoxiao? They have a performance in their music club, and they went to rehearsal! ”

"But I see her."

Yang Xinyue didn't know if it was because of the effect of alcohol, and the whole person was confused. On the next table are colorful hookahs, all of which are shining and smoky.

"Who do you see?" Yi Yao took another long sip of wine.

"I see Xiaoxiao!"

"How is that possible? Xiaoxiao jumped off the building and died! Yi Yao smiled and said, "I also want to try it with three foreigners!" Just like they do. ”

Yang Xinyue looked in the direction of Yi Yao's finger, and there were three dark shadows sitting at the next table, their faces hidden in the smoke.

"Haha." Yi Yao laughed loudly, her head swinging to the music.

"I'll go back first!" Yang Xinyue didn't want to stay for a second longer, put down her wine glass and walked out of the door of the bar.

It was quiet outside the door, with dim street lamps, quiet woods on the side of the road, men and women in twos and threes.

Yang Crescent looked around, it was a quiet tree-lined path.

She was walking briskly when a truck full of sand whizzed past her, dusty.

"Haha."

Someone laughed behind Yang Xinyue.

She looked back and saw a black figure standing right behind her.

Yang Xinyue was so frightened that she fell backwards and crashed into a Jetta car.

Without the slightest hesitation, she opened the car door with her backhand and slipped in.

Press the clutch, hit the brakes, light the gear and then drop the handbrake.

Lifting the clutch sharply, the car stalled abruptly.

She almost burst into tears, lit the fire again, slowly lifted the clutch, and the car walked away. Gearing, fueling, the car did not speed up, still slowly moving forward.

Yang Xinyue subconsciously looked out of the car, and the man was still following behind the car.

"Let's go!" She screamed, but the car seemed to be working against her, even if the accelerator pedal was useless.

He's about to catch up.

10.

"You've been getting your driver's license test lately, right?" Cao Chengrui took a sip of beer and wanted to fork a piece of chicken wings with a fork, but when he raised his eyes and found that Yi Yao was looking at him, he put down the fork.

"It's not the point." Yang Xinyue said angrily: "The point is that the two of us dreamed almost the same. ”

Cao Chengrui nodded seriously, this kind of thing is not impossible to happen, it is possible for two people to have the same dream in the case of the same experience. For example, if both of them are comrades in the trenches, it is very likely that they dream that they are digging trenches at the same time.

"What do you think is nothing?" Yi Yao didn't eat either, stared at Cao Chengrui and said, "Xinyue told me about you. ”

"Those are all coincidences." Cao Chengrui also stared at Yi Yao.

"It seems that you often use 'coincidences' to trick little girls into getting laid, right?" A smile hung on the corner of Yi Yao's mouth.

"Yaoyao, don't talk nonsense!" Yang Xinyue pulled the sleeve of Rai Yao's sweater.

Yi Yao shook her head slightly, stuck the spoon heavily on the omelet rice and said, "I have seen a lot of fake literary and artistic people like him, running trains with a smooth mouth, and what he is best at is tricking women to sleep." ”

Cao Chengrui thought for a moment and said, "I said, little girl, have you ever been hurt?" ”

"What did you say!?" Yi Yao's voice increased a few points significantly, and she glared at Cao Chengrui.

"Calm down." Cao Chengrui smiled and said, "I think you may have some misunderstanding about me." ”

Yang Xinyue was not embarrassed, and blushed a little. "yes, a table of delicious food. Let's have a good meal. After that, he looked at Cao Chengrui again and said, "Maybe we are too neurotic." ”

"What misconception do I have about you?" Yi Yao continued: "It can be seen from your novel that your heart and eyes are 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? ”

Cao Chengrui's face turned pale and he was silent.

"The plots in the novel are all fictional." Cao Chengrui crossed his fingers and said, "I'm not as psychologically dark as you said. ”

"Really?" Yi Yao looked at Yang Xinyue, who was sitting beside her, and said, "Xinyue thinks you are a special god, prophet?" It's also a coincidence! I actually met you through Jiang Hong's kid! She originally wanted you to untie yourself, but it's good for you to untie other people's clothes, huh? ”

Yang Xinyue was red from her forehead to her collarbone, biting her lip and saying, "Don't say it!" ”

Cao Chengrui was a little unbearable, but he still maintained restraint, after all, the other party was a little girl.

"I think it's a matter of the two of us, and you don't have to worry about it. Let's have a good meal. ”

Cao Chengrui thought for a moment and then said, "I won't hurt Yue'er." ”

"You can rest assured of that."

11.

Yi Yao really hated it.

After sending the two of them back to the dormitory, I sat on the bus home. Today I asked the landlord to re-sign the contract. I'm going to continue to rent the house that Tao Qiwu left behind.

It's amazing, I live in Tao Qiwu's house, use Tao Qiwu's computer, and write the articles he left behind. The room was full of Tao Qiwu's shadow.

It's all familiar to me, and I feel like I've become him.

12.

"Where have you been?" Li Ling stood at the door and said, "The landlord is waiting for you here for a long time!" ”

Cao Chengrui smiled apologetically and said, "It's a little delayed, sister is really embarrassed!" ”

Looking at the contract and paying another year's rent, from this moment on, this house belongs to Cao Chengrui.

"Ling." Seeing off the landlord, Cao Chengrui sat at the computer desk and said to Li Ling: "You can rest, and go out for a walk when you have time." I'll write the next chapters. ”

"It's possible that I'm going to sign a contract." Li Ling walked over and gently hugged Cao Chengrui's neck from behind and said, "I think you are a big step closer to success." ”

"Thank you, you wrote the last chapters." Cao Chengrui said calmly.

"It's not because your story is well structured!"

Cao Chengrui smiled and nodded, not knowing what Tao Qiwu would say if he was still alive.

But Lao Tao is dead, and Lao Tao in the novel is also dead, it doesn't matter what he says, Cao Chengrui thought.

Text: Episode 16 -End-