Chapter Twenty-Three: A Beautiful Music
That night, except for Jialan, the others got on the last plane to the lost city, and it was already three o'clock in the morning when they arrived in the lost city, and the surroundings were quiet, and there were some people walking around the airport. Jialan also wanted to look for clues in her grandfather's former residence, but when she learned that the policewoman knew the location of the warehouse, Fan Lihu was anxious to go back, so the two reached an agreement and acted separately. When Fan Li returned to the warehouse with tired steps, his eyelids seemed to be stuck with 502, and before Chu Jianghe could unlock it, he had already slept against the door.
At five o'clock in the morning the next day, Fan Li woke up from his dream, and he dreamed that countless policewomen shot at him, and the sheriff killed Jialan in front of him. He rubbed his eyes, only to realize that he was already lying on the bed, and remembered about the ruby. He sat up abruptly and opened the drawer, and sure enough, the dragon scale key was gone, but anything in the warehouse, including the windows, was intact.
Fan Li smiled bitterly and looked at the ceiling, this group of policewomen was quite moral, he thought it was the kind of scene of breaking into the door and being in a mess. The key that I had been worried about all this time has been lost, alas, even if it is a favor for the sheriff. He took a deep breath, feeling tired, and he lay in bed with the intention of thinking about the series of problems that had happened recently, but as soon as he put on the pillow, he fell asleep.
When he got up, it was still dark, he sat up, rubbed his shoulders and neck, and went to the living room to find everyone sitting on the couch watching TV.
"Why do you wake up so early?"
"What?" Xiao Yun laughed when he asked this, and the others laughed too.
"It's seven o'clock, seven o'clock the next night." Xiao Xiao explained. "You really make us admire, you don't go hungry without eating for a day."
"I'm hungry if I'm not hungry." After dinner, Fan Lixi began to press the road. At about nine o'clock, he walked alone at the gate of a park somewhere in the lost city, looking at the traffic in front of him in a daze. I don't know if Jialan has found a reliable clue now, I hope she is safe.
There's been so much going on lately, the scorched corpse incident, the army of policewomen, the strange kids, and the continuous dreams. He felt the pressure squeezing in from all directions, like a lung about to drown, sighed, the pressure of several years of comfortable life was piled on his shoulders in an instant, but who could he blame, just like the sheriff said, he opened the door of the secluded capital and released the heart slave. He walked into the park, and at this time, there were not many people in the park, and he heard the music, a familiar song, and walked along the song, until he saw a boy who looked like a high school student sitting in the pavilion and playing a song "Zebra Zebra" through the woods. There was a bit of sadness and helplessness in his voice, which was also Fan Li's state of mind at this moment, he thought that Ye Yuning had sung this song on the stage, and couldn't help but think of the Crescent Hotel again.
Fan Li decisively took a taxi and went straight to the Crescent Hotel, but the door of the hotel was pitch black, and the door number was not bright. Disappointed, he turned and left, there was still some distance from the warehouse, so let's exercise after dinner.
He walked through an alley toward Main Street, which was pitch black, with only the occasional dim lamp emitting an intermittent glow. Four tall and slender men hurriedly passed in front of him, and as they passed by, Fan Li found that they were just sixteen or seventeen-year-old gangsters.
Thinking back to the last time I met the second fierce son who was burned by anger in such a place, I was really frightened at the time, but now? When the back of his hand could ignite a flame, he suddenly left nothing but curiosity about anything, and his sense of fear vanished. Now, he should have hoped that some charred corpse would attract his attention, or that someone would fight him to fill his empty heart.
Thinking of this, there was a sudden scream in front of him, as if it came from another staggered alley, and there was a series of conversations, and Fan Li pricked up his ears to listen to the faint sound.
"Don't you dare...... Don't dare next time! ”
"Sister......
"You let me go."
"Next time, don't play, don't curse again!"
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts! Don't fight! ”
Following the sound, Fan Li turned into the alley, and after seeing the darkness ahead, three figures looming appeared, a thin man holding a baseball bat, waving it at the two people who were struggling on the ground, and the two people on the ground let out a scream without a sound. Fan Li looked around and found that there was an Internet café next to him, and he immediately understood something, it should be three people who disagreed with each other, and the slightly stronger one of them dragged them out and beat them.
Fan Li's pace quickened and walked in that direction, the one who hit the man had his back to him, although he did not mean to stop in the face of the two unlucky people who kept begging for mercy, but it intensified, and the two people who fell to the ground were holding their heads, twisting on the ground because of the pain. Fan Li approached them and found that the beating was not a thin gangster, but a long-haired woman, although she was slender but not shallow, brandishing a steel baseball bat with one hand and beating the two bastards in front of her.
Although a bastard is a bastard, he is also a minor and a vulnerable group. Fan Li felt that there would definitely be a problem with such a fight, so he patted the man on the shoulder.
"Girl......" Before he could finish speaking, the woman suddenly felt his presence, turned around sharply, and swung over with a hard baseball bat, Fan Li was so frightened that he took two steps back, and the two of them were stunned when they saw each other.
"Yu Ning?"
"Fan Li?"
At this time, Ye Yuning was wearing a motorcycle black jacket, revealing a large white T-shirt around his waist, and his lower body was tight black pants and long boots, much like police boots. She looked cold, but after seeing Fan Li, she showed a trace of shyness, hurriedly blocked the baseball bat behind her, and smiled awkwardly.
"You...... What are you doing here? ”
"I just came to your store and wanted to see you, but your store was closed, so I wanted to walk around the neighborhood." Fan Li glanced at the two thugs behind him who were looking at him with fearful eyes. "What did they do to you?" As soon as a star beauty like Ye Yuning is associated with this kind of gangster, Fan Li will think of some things such as attacking a lone traveler at night and robbing money and sex, but after all, Ye Yuning is beating people with a baseball bat, so there is only speculation, and it is difficult to conclude.
"No, I used to play games in an Internet café, and I couldn't get used to these two trolls, but just in time for me to get angry, I taught them a lesson." Ye Yuning threw the baseball bat at the two thugs.
"Get out!" She yelled at them, the two of them were so frightened that they didn't dare to pick up the baseball bat, and fled directly to the other side of the alley, shouting the words of stinky girls and cheap ** while running, Ye Yuning didn't think about it, as if he had known that they would shout, one foot cocked the baseball bat, rounded his arm, and threw the baseball bat in the direction they ran, the baseball bat was like a meteorite, and smashed into the back of one of them, the man was crushed to the ground by such an attack, and fell a dog to eat, his partner saw this scene, Frightened, he sped up, for fear that something else would hit him, and he only cared about running for his life, and he couldn't care about his companions.
"They're just going to cut it, let's go, I'll make you some supper."
The two returned to the Crescent Hotel, and Ye Yuning tried several keys before opening the lock of the hotel. In the past, in Fan Li's opinion, a woman like Ye Yuning should be the kind of delicate and meticulous girl. He checked Ye Yuning's information, she is a person from Xiaoxiang, the place in Hunan is rich in southern beauties, although she is a hot girl on the surface, but compared to the girls in the north, she is still a little more delicate, but what about Ye Yuning in front of her, she looks very generous, except for cooking, everything is very rough, only the rare shyness just now can barely see that it is a big girl's family.
As soon as he entered the hotel, Fan Li saw a mess in the hall, and all the tables were piled aside.
"It's going to be renovated recently, and the guys are on vacation, so my family lives in the back, so I'll look at the store if I'm fine."
Ye Yuning led Fan Li to the singing room, and for about half an hour, she came over with a dining cart with a steak set meal on it.
Although Fan Li was full, a kitchen god like Ye Yuning would definitely arouse his gluttony, and he couldn't wait to cut off a piece of steak and put it in his mouth, snorting with satisfaction.
"Do you live alone in the labyrinth?" Fan asked as he ate.
"Well, my home is in Hunan, I haven't been back for a long, long time, I have a few good friends in Beijing and Shanghai, here in the lost city, only those waitresses have a good relationship with me, and then you are the left."
"Haven't you ever thought about singing again? From your score and singing, I can see a little unwillingness. ”
"Cooking also brings me joy." Ye Yuning didn't answer directly, she turned her head to look at the guitar crooked in the corner, and laughed self-deprecatingly. "When you have nothing to do, you can play and sing to yourself, and post the audio on the Internet, which can be regarded as a kind of self-comfort."
"What about you? What have you been up to lately? Ye Yuning turned her head and looked at Fan Li, her eyes were always a little complicated, she looked like she had been hurt at a young age, she should be the kind of passionate and high-spirited female singer, but she always looked decadent and degenerate.
"It's nothing, I went to see my grandfather the other day." Fan Lixi replied simply. He can't tell both the policewoman and the charred corpse, a girl like Ye Yuning definitely can't accept such a weird and terrifying thing.
"That grandpa...... Is he okay with the old man? ”
"Well, it's good." Fan Li pretended to smile, it was very unnatural, but Ye Yuning didn't pay attention to his expression, he had already turned his gaze to the steak, otherwise it would be a torment to look into her eyes and tell lies.
"That's good, that's good." Ye Yuning took a deep breath.
While enjoying the steak, Fan Li looked up at the poster on the wall of the singing room from time to time, and finally his eyes fell on Qin Ziyang's body.
"Do you like listening to Qin Ziyang's songs?"
Ye Yuning nodded.
"I like it too, but I haven't had any news about this singer recently, I just saw the ads she did, and I didn't see any news about her comeback, as if it disappeared after EFQ became famous."
"Maybe every family has a scripture that is difficult to read." Ye Yuning got up and put away the empty plate, as soon as she reached out and touched Fan Li's hand, the two looked at each other, showing an unnatural smile, and then she picked up the sundries and pushed the dining cart away.
When Ye Yuning came back, Fan Li was already sitting in the corner with the guitar, Ye Yuning smiled, walked to the piano and played a song, and the two sang while playing. Fan Li only felt that his soul had been purified again, and that feeling was wonderful, as if millions of cells in his body were being renewed, not only spiritually relaxed, but also materially reborn. He began to lament the power of music and sang unbridledly. He also glanced at Ye Yuning from time to time, she was dressed as a motorcycle girl and played the piano, which gave him a special feeling. The picture in his subconscious is an angel in white sitting on the piano playing, but Ye Yuning wants to use his personality to break such a picture. This kind of Ye Yuning is beautiful with a bit of elegance, and her elegant appearance is strong, it is a picture of a beautiful strong woman who can calm down and play a song, and it is a picture of a self-reliant beauty and an unlucky person who is troubled by terrible things playing together.