60. The battle of wills
Before I went back to my seat, I went to the bathroom and splashed my face with cold water to clear my head. When I did the entry work again, I was already absent-minded, and I made frequent mistakes, deleted and re-changed, and a case entry was not done until I was about to get off work.
didn't go to Xiao Dong again, just sent the finished documents directly to his mailbox, and left after work.
Driving back to the downstairs of the apartment, I took a few steps out of the cart door and remembered that the car was not locked, and when I turned back to lock it, I suddenly looked around, and I subconsciously drove the car back to my apartment.
The upstairs home is not empty, but the toiletries and change of clothes have been taken to Zhou Yu's side, and it is not easy to say anything and run back to live. He had to sit back in the driver's seat and drive towards his apartment.
At the red light at the intersection, I stopped the car and waited, and suddenly felt a shock to the body, and the whole person rushed forward.
Shocked to look back, he immediately realized that someone was rear-ended.
When I got out of the car, I saw a white CC on top of my car, and a young woman stepped out of the car. She looked at the front of the car and came to blame me: "Why did you stop suddenly?" Do you know how to drive? ”
I was not in the mood to argue with the other party, but the traffic police in the middle of the road had noticed that there had been an accident here and were walking over.
In order to avoid traffic jams, both cars were ordered to move to the side of the road, and by the time the traffic police had finished dealing with it, it was already dark. I should take insurance and make a claim, but I have pushed it until tomorrow.
In front of Zhou Yu's apartment, I pressed the fingerprint lock while thinking about why he didn't give me a call?
But when I opened the door and found that it was dark and silent, he hadn't come back yet? Also, what about Zhou Liang? Is it gone?
When dialing Zhou Yu, the voice prompt dialed the user is not in the service area.
Suddenly, the mood was at the bottom, and nothing went smoothly throughout the day.
I looked around the room and made sure Zhou Liang was not in the house. In the kitchen, the milk bottle he opened in the morning and the rest of the silk were thrown on the stove. Annoyed, I swept them all into the trash.
A person, with a bowl of white water noodles, ate tastelessly.
Hearing movement outside the door, Zhou Yu pushed the door in while his eyes wandered, and his face seemed to be a little gloomy when his eyes swept over.
When asked why it was so late, he replied that there was a delay in the office.
When I came over to see the white noodle soup I had eaten halfway, he frowned and asked, "Why haven't you eaten it until now?" ”
"When I came back from work, I was rear-ended, and the traffic police delayed the time to deal with the accident."
"Go to work? Aren't you on vacation? ”
I remembered this incident and didn't tell him, "I took a vacation with Xiao Dong yesterday." ”
His face sank suddenly: "When did you tell him?" Will Zhou Xiao come to make trouble? ”
I don't understand why Xiao Dong has become a minefield, and he will blow up at one point. But I still have to be honest: "No, it's the fake that I sent him a message later." ”
"Then why are you hiding it from me?"
I patiently explained, "I didn't hide it from you, I forgot to tell you." ”
"Forgot?" His tone raised, there was displeasure in his eyes, and there was mockery in his expression: "I'm afraid it was deliberate." ”
"I don't want to quarrel with you." As soon as he left the words, he was about to get up, but he grabbed his arm and asked in a deep voice: "Is it really so painful to let you live here?" Not even willing to stay in this house for an extra minute? ”
I took a deep breath and told the truth: "I canceled the vacation because your second brother came over, if you go to work and there are only me and him in the house, you will feel very awkward, thinking that it is okay to cancel the vacation and go to work." ”
I thought that he would always understand this explanation, but I heard him sneer, and said in an unkind tone: "Lost the pot to the second child?" He got out early in the morning. Even if he didn't leave, would you avoid him so quickly? ”
Over and over again, my patience was finally worn out.
"Yes, I'm just going to avoid him! Don't like to be alone with him under one roof, can't you? "When I got to the back, I raised my voice. I'm my brother-in-law, he's the second uncle, and the two of them are alone in the same room, is it appropriate? What's more, Zhou Liang asked me to separate from Zhou Yu in the morning with mockery!
Zhou Yu heard my loud voice, and also roared like thunder: "The one you avoid is my family, do you want to never see my family in this life?" ”
We suddenly condensed and asked him, "Did you let me see it?" ”
He raised his eyebrows: "The second child is not a human?" ”
Shaking his head with a smile, he really felt that he was telling a cold joke, "Zhou Gongjin, you don't understand what I'm asking." We got married, I'm afraid you haven't told your parents so far. Maybe you want to say that I also vetoed the banquet when my mother mentioned it, but it doesn't mean that you can tolerate being hidden by your golden house, when what am I? ”
"What am I when you are? You can actually ask this, what else can you be besides my wife? Yes? ”
Zhou Yu's eyes rolled with rage, and the little starlight turned into a burning flame, and the palm on my arm tightened.
It hurts, but I grit my teeth and endure it.
It was a meaningless quarrel, he didn't think he was at fault, I felt wronged, and the quarrel didn't work out for a long time.
After the silence fell, Zhou Yu's wheezing sound was clear from the outside. It was already very cold outside, but he was still wearing a trench coat and a shirt inside, and if you looked closely, even his nose was frozen red.
The palm that was holding my arm gradually loosened, and he turned his face and whispered after a while, "It's that I'm in a bad mood." ”
Rarely, he's apologizing to me. It's awkward, but it's useful.
"Have you eaten?" I changed the subject, and my tone was a little stiff.
He glanced at the cold noodles on the table, "I've eaten outside, don't eat your noodles, call for takeout." ”
It's boring, so I didn't object.
I came out after packing up the noodle bowl into the kitchen and found Zhou Yu standing on the balcony smoking, looking a little depressed from the back.
Thinking back to the time he entered the door just now, it seemed that something was really wrong. I was hesitating whether to step forward, the two had just had an argument that I was afraid that it would only add negative emotions, and after hesitation, Zhou Yu turned around.
The light in the room contrasted with the dark balcony, and the floor-to-ceiling glass sliding door separated me from him like a boundary.
I felt uncomfortable for a moment, so I didn't hesitate to walk over and open the sliding door, and when I saw his face clearly, I was relieved and asked, "Isn't it cold outside?" ”
He replied, "It's fine." ”
The cold wind blew in my face, making me shiver.
His eyes sparkled, and he walked up and put his arm around my shoulders and walked inside, "Go in." ”
I smelled the faint smell of smoke on his body, and the obvious coolness, but I couldn't help but speak: "What's wrong with you today?" What's going on? Listening to his soft hum, he didn't say anything, thinking that he didn't want to speak.
But unexpectedly, after taking two steps, I heard him suddenly say: "Li You has entered the hospital again." ”
His heart pounded, and he looked at him in amazement.
He turned his head, and there was something elusive in his dark eyes, "Do you remember Li You, the victim of the school bullying case?" He fell from his window in the early hours of this morning and is still unconscious because of his head on the ground. ”
"How so?"
The corners of his mouth curled, but there was no smile in his eyes, "Who knows? It was a neighbor who found out and said that he only heard a loud bang, and came out to see that the person had fallen there. ”
"What floor does he live on?"
"I should be glad to be there." Zhou Yu suddenly said, "Fortunately, his family environment is not good, he can't afford to buy a house in the city, and the building he built is only two floors." Otherwise, there is no need to be hospitalized at this time. ”
I just had an argument with Xiao Dong because of the school bullying case during the day, and when I heard that such an accident happened, I can't help but wonder if it has something to do with the past? But I can't ask this, and I'm not qualified to ask.
"Maybe Li You is going to drop out of school."
When I heard this, I was stunned and asked, "Why?" ”
Zhou Yu sneered lightly: "Why else, there is no money." ”
"But now secondary school is not compulsory, and the tuition fee is not too high?"
"The tuition fees are not high, but the extracurricular tutoring classes are amazingly expensive." The implication is that Li You has been absent from class again and again, and he will inevitably not be able to keep up with the school's curriculum, but he has no money to go to tutoring classes outside.
"Jia Xiaoru," Zhou Yu suddenly called me, "I won't make a detour with you, Zhang Jiahao's family didn't compensate Li You a dime more than pay for the limited medical expenses." And his mother was diagnosed with uremia, and now you understand why he would rather endure his grievances and agree to your private settlement? But the result? ”
I was speechless.
Maybe I wasn't the straw that broke the camel's back, but I was the one who threw it down.
Xiao Dong said that the law can restrain people's behavior, but it cannot control people's morality. Zhang Jiahao's father can swear to pay a high amount of compensation on the one hand, but he can also not believe his word. Whether it is the court or Zhou Yu's police station, no one can take him helplessly, and it is impossible to arrest and convict him because he did not give the promised money in private.
I understand this truth, and Zhou Yu naturally understands it too.
That's why he came back and was angry at me, blaming me for my clever tongue at the time, blaming him for his own insistence.
The mobile phone on the coffee table was calling, and Zhou Yu walked over, it should be the takeaway.
But the first sentence he answered, he knew that it was not the takeaway brother calling: "Awake? I'll come right over. He put down the phone and walked to the door without saying a word, and I hurriedly called him: "Did Li You wake up in the hospital?" ”
"Well, I'll go take a look, you can sleep first."
"I'll go too."
After a moment of silence, he rejected me: "Don't go yet, wait for me to see the situation." "Pause," according to his neighbor, he felt that something was wrong with this kid two days ago, and he always sat on the windowsill in a daze, so he judged that it might be a jump. ”
Zhou Yu opened the door and left, and I was stunned for a long time and didn't come back to my senses.
He said that Li You may have jumped off the building.
What kind of desperate situation is it going to make a teenager choose suicide?