Chapter 53: Through the Looking Glass
On that rainy night, I walked for a long time in the alley, my steps heavy as if I was walking towards the end of the world, hoping to find a wish quickly, but I could not face his condition and sorrow.
I felt that after walking for a century, I never saw the wish, and I didn't dare to call him out loud, for fear of attracting the attention of others, so I could only keep turning into various forks and alleys, walking back and forth like a madman, tears quietly flowing, and being washed away by the rain. He was soaking wet, his shoes were dragging in the mud, and his legs were as heavy as lead.
Later, I stood under a telephone pole with a yellowish street lamp over my head, leaving a small pool of shiny water beside me.
I thought to myself that if I made a wish nearby, he would be able to see me in the dim light. I went out in a hurry, forgot to open an umbrella, and saw that the bread in the handbag had been wet by the rain and turned into a pile of paste, so I was so sad that I took off my jacket and put it on the bag, and after covering it, I found that the clothes were already soaked.
I shuddered, if I could see Wish, no matter what, I would take him and Miyu to my house, let them sleep well, have a hot meal, change into clean clothes, go to the supermarket to buy, stock up on some food, hide them first, and not let him suffer outside.
Thinking of buying food, I found that I was in too much of a hurry to go out, and I didn't bring a penny, and I thought about what if he didn't go with me and needed money.
There was still no one around, and it was assumed that he might have left, and those who broke the law were like frightened birds, and would not stay in one place for long. When I think of the word criminal, my heart is like a knife.
Tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and when all the sun rises, what to do if you make a wish - after all, he killed someone.
After thinking about it for a while, the rain made people unable to open their eyes, and they wanted to go around in another place. Just as he was about to take a step, a dark shadow came out of a small alleyway diagonally opposite, slowly appearing in the light.
Through the rain curtain, I still recognize it at a glance - it's a wish!
He was skinny, with vicissitudes of life, and walked slowly with heavy steps, and in half a month, he suddenly aged dozens of years, his tall and thin body was like a shrimp and half arched, and his legs were swinging straight and shaking when he walked.
With a sadness, I stepped forward and hugged him.
There are a thousand words to say to him, but I don't know what to say first, his eyes are blank, and his arms and head are still wrapped in gauze - it seems that the rumors in the suburban police station that he was besieged by the Ocean Group are true.
In a hurry, he asked him, "Are you okay?" Where have you been? ”
He didn't say anything, he lay his head on my shoulder, and he forced himself not to cry, because his chest was spasming because of overpatience.
I felt a warm soak over my shoulder, his tears. At this time, in his heart, no matter how sad he was, he didn't even have the opportunity and right to cry.
Later, the two separated, wishing to be a head taller than me, and he held me and looked down at the wounds on my legs and shoulders.
He said with a wry smile: "It doesn't matter if you are injured, these days, I heard Ma San talk about you, Mei Yu and I are very worried about you, we have affected you." ”
I couldn't hold back crying loudly anymore, saying, "I'm the one who bothered you, I'm sorry to make a wish, I'm sorry to ......"
Xu Yuan held my shoulder, wiped the rain on his face, and said with a smile: "I originally thought that I would definitely help you get angry and let you drag it after making money, but don't worry, I also put down several people opposite." ”
Seeing him pretend to be relaxed and listening to the word "put down", my heart felt like a sharp spike, and the blood was about to gush out, and it would be difficult to heal.
I said, "Old man Xu has come to Lucheng, accompanied by people from the province, he will definitely help you, and I will also ask my aunt to help you." ”
When Xu Yuan heard Old Man Xu, his face darkened, and he lowered his head and didn't speak for a long time.
Later, with a forced smile on his face, he reached out and took out a small red locket from his arms, covered the rain with his other hand, and opened the box, which contained a delicate diamond ring, the diamond faintly shining in the rain and fog.
"This is for Mei Yu, I bought it last time I attended Lin Wei's wedding in Beijing, and I wanted to propose to Mei Yu at Li Shang's wedding, but something delayed. I knew she wanted to marry me. He said with his eyes down.
He buckled the lid of the box, looked up at the sky, and stretched out his palm into the rain, which flowed down his palm, leaving nothing behind.
Suddenly, he shoved the diamond ring box into my hand.
I took a step back in surprise, not understanding what this meant, and trembling violently with the box of diamond rings in my hand.
The alley in the rain was damp and cold, and the wish shook his body, as if he couldn't support it, and suddenly his legs were weak, and he fell to his knees in the mud weakly.
"I'm sorry! What am I going to do! Wishing covered his face and began to choke and sob.
I heard a muddy sound of my knees tangling with the mud as they hit the ground. Hurriedly bent down to help him, he kept shaking in the rain, and he couldn't pull it.
The great grief instantly crushed my heart, and I was about to suffocate it. I also fell to my knees, and the two of us hugged each other and cried, without shelter, letting the rain hit me.
I cried for a while, put my hand down, looked at me after my mood stabilized a little, and said, "Find a chance for you to give it to Miyu and tell her that I love her!" ”
His face was pale, his eyes were sunken, and his lips were trembling, but he was desperately gritting his teeth, his lips were sunken in his teeth, and a stream of tears welled up in his eyes, and he was trying to restrain himself from letting more tears flow.
Then, he pulled me to my feet, reached for my bag and bag and began to slowly retreat, I felt my heart be stabbed by a knife again, and my heart cracked. Grabbed him and said, "Why don't you give it to her yourself, you can tell her in person that you love her and want her to marry you!" ”
Wishing to break free from my hand, he shook his head gently, his eyes were still full of tears, and he said, "Do I still have a chance?" Then he stopped and said, "Xia, you must be careful yourself, the other party is crazy, you really can't go back to Beijing, you just need to bring a message to my father, saying that I admit my mistake, and he will help you work in the Xu Group." Get out of here! ”
With that, he suddenly turned around and quickly ran into the darkness.
"Say thank you to Ma San on my behalf! He's been helping me these days. "Make a wish and leave this sentence at the end.
I instinctively followed, and went out into the darkness from the streetlight, my eyes were not adapting, my leg hurt and hurt, and I fell into a mud puddle after running a few steps. Quickly got up, the wish had disappeared into the alleyway.
I shouted at his vanishing back, "I'm not going anywhere!" I'm here, waiting for you!"
All sounds were drowned out by the rain.
There are a thousand words in my heart that haven't been said yet, and I haven't even taken him to a hot meal, and I don't know what happened to Miyu, so he just disappeared.
I shouted again in the direction he ran away, "You have a chance!" ”
I kept shouting, crawling aimlessly through the dark alleys like a disoriented child, frightening the prostitutes, who closed the door as I passed by, and let me weave through the alley.
Later, I was tired of shouting, and my voice was hoarse, so I could only talk to myself and tell something vaguely. Holding the diamond ring box tightly in his hand, he sat on a stone and watched the rain hit all around, splashing countless muddy splashes and filling the place with the smell of rot.
In the night, I sat alone in that rotten alleyway for a long time, recalling our past in my mind, and countless memories were as vivid as yesterday.
I was entrusted with a diamond ring for Miyu, and I didn't have a chance to give it away. Even if there is a chance to send it to Miyu, for her, it is like leaving a beautiful and cruel scar, which will be a lifelong pain, and every time she remembers it, she will tear her heart and bleed nonstop.
Two days later, the bad news came.
Someone found Wishing and Miwa in a rental house deep in Tojo Alley that could never wake up again. They both took a lot of sleeping pills.
After the police investigation at the scene, he made a wish to take medicine first and stopped breathing before he was discovered by Mei Yu. Miyu scrubbed himself and herself, changed into the clean clothes I gave them, and then took sleeping pills and lay quietly beside Wish, holding his hand tightly, and fell asleep, never waking up again.
When the two were found, the rain had stopped, the blue sky was not a trace of haze, and the sunlight passed through the narrow gaps in the alley, overflowed the windows, and spread onto the beds, forming a light layer of light on them.
Wishing and Miyu are close to each other, like entering a dream that will never wake up, Miyu has a serene smile on her face, and a line of faint tears is frozen on the cheeks of Wish.
This rental house is owned by one of Ma San's former subordinates, who was arrested on suspicion of harboring wanted criminals, and the police also suspect that he also provided the sleeping pills that Wishing and Meiyu were taking.
After identification, the police convicted the case.
The murderer committed suicide in fear of crime, and the murder case that occurred at the Falling Snow Bar in Hokkaido was solved. Subsequently, the police notified the family members of the wish, and the case entered the civil compensation procedure.
Old man Xu sent someone to handle the funeral and conveyed his wishes: make a wish to be cremated and buried in this city.
When he lost his son in old age, there were unresolved contradictions and misunderstandings between father and son, and he didn't want to think about this pain for the rest of his life.
Miyu is an orphan who has only one distant uncle in Japan, and after negotiation, he agrees to bury Miyu and Wishing together.
Mr. Xu sent someone to assist me and Zixuan in holding a funeral for Wish Maker and Meiyu. Lin Wei flew back from abroad urgently, and she fainted twice when she saw the body of Wishing and Miyu.
"Someday, I'm going to kill them!" Lin Wei choked up with tears in her eyes. She was referring to Zhang Shuai and the guards.
The funeral was held in a low-key funeral home, and not many people attended.
Because the wish involved a homicide and a funeral for him, there were a lot of complaints from the fire department, but in the end he didn't say anything.
On the hill where the funeral parlor is located, strong winds often blow, and although the sky is clear after the rain, it is obscured by the smoke from the burning of paper money on the mountain, and the entire summit is gray.
While we were dressing up for the vow, the guards themselves came to the hill with a group of people dressed in red and armed with sticks, and surrounded the funeral home, claiming to seek justice for the dead.
When Chu Qing and Lin Wei, who appeared for the first time after being beaten by Zixuan, passed by the gate, the people in red rushed up to surround them, and their clothes were torn and they were molested. Fortunately, David rushed over, and the other party saw a foreigner angry, a little frightened, and did not dare to beat him, Chinese have always respected foreigners.
After someone called the police, a police car came from the police station, and two policemen got down, and the people in red said that they were the family members of the deceased.
Hearing that it was the family members who came to denounce the murderer, the police took the walkie-talkie to report, and after a while, two more police cars came, and more than a dozen policemen stood aside chatting and talking, maintaining basic order and not taking care of things.
And my aunt heard me in advance that I was going to hold a funeral for Wish, but I didn't agree at all, and for this reason, I almost quarreled with her, and it was impossible to ask her for help.
When Wishing and Meiyu's bones were not cold, and we were isolated, Takakawa and Brother Xiong arrived in time with a group of people, including several fighting masters hired by Wishing in the past, after the bar closed, these people had nothing to do, so they followed Brother Xiong, grateful for the boldness and generosity of Wish, and also came to attend the funeral.
Takakawa's men and the guards immediately clashed. The guards sat in the car in the distance and did not move, and the other party was only led by a leader of the Harbin Story Bar, which did not have much deterrent power.
Brother Xiong led people to knock over several people, maybe it was the guards who gave orders, and the other party dispersed in a hurry, but he was afraid that he would not be able to deal with it when he went back, so he stood far away outside the funeral home and did not leave.
We redressed Wishing and Meiyu, put on a suit for Wishing, and customized a set of pure white wedding dresses for Meiyu, Lin Wei put the diamond ring that Wishing bought on Meiyu's hand, and a silver bracelet on Meiyu's wrist was made into a ring and put on Wishing, and they were covered with flowers, like a pair of happy lovers living in their sleep.
What I didn't expect was that Guan Hai also rushed to hear the news.
From his mouth, I learned about the acquaintance of Wishing and Miyu. Mei Yu was introduced to Wishing by Guan Hai, but she didn't expect the two to fall in love at first sight and never separated. For this reason, Guan Hai also had a fight with Wish, and after the fight, Wishing took Miyu to this city.
"This is a mistake! They shouldn't have known each other in the first place. Guan Hai said with the corners of his eyes moist. The tallest man in the school cried at the funeral where he made a wish, and cried very sadly.
I said, "Maybe they are content with each other, even if the happiness is short-lived, after all, they have loved each other." ”
Later, I asked Guan Hai again: "Do you hate to make a wish?" ”
He was silent for a long time and said: "In the face of true love, who is qualified to hate. If I hadn't had that fight with Wish, maybe he wouldn't have chosen to come to this city, and this tragedy wouldn't have happened. ”
I didn't speak, we stood silently in front of the tomb where we made a wish, the afterglow of the setting sun shrouded everything, outside the city, the night slowly attacked, but at this time, the sky and the earth were golden.
There is a kind of love, and death must be faced together.
The living are sad, and the dead remain long-lasting.