When Ye Jingrong's body was found, it was said that it had begun to stink slightly.

Only a week to go back to Wuhan, Chu Li non-stop inspection of a number of places, Dongguan prices are gradually becoming higher and higher, the rent of a small factory is ridiculously expensive, a remote factory of 200 square meters, will also shout 100,000 rent, which is absolutely unbearable.

"Brother Chu, my dad...... My dad ...... Let's go. Xiao Ye's trembling and low words were like a cold sharp knife, gently touching his chest, and Chu Li felt an uncontrollable tightening of his heart. The air around me seemed to freeze, and every breath involved all the turbid breath in the room in the early morning, making people exhausted.

Chu Li called Sun Lei, and he said that he was next to Xiao Ye and asked him to hurry to the funeral home. When Chu Li took a taxi and arrived, Grandma Ye had already fainted and was taken to the hospital. In Na Chuli, I saw Xiao Ye's uncle and other relatives for the first time. There are not many older relatives, most of them are also from Ye Jingrong's generation, and the younger generations such as Xiao Ye's cousins and cousins have no one to appear, I believe that the family is backward and there are very few contacts. Sun Lei held the cigarette butt in his hand, sat next to Xiao Ye expressionlessly, and held her shoulder with the other hand. Chu Li walked to Xiao Ye's side, Xiao Ye's eyes were already red from crying at this time, and his face was red from being wiped with tissues, which made Chu Li suddenly remember the purple scar on her face when she saw her from the warm harbor.

Xiao Ye raised his face and looked at Chu Li, squeezing out a little smile. At this time, a white-haired old man who looked about the same age as Grandma Ye walked up to Xiao Ye with his waist and began to comfort her in the Dongguan dialect. Xiao Ye stood up and lowered his head to listen to what he said. Sun Lei looked at Chu Li and walked to the door.

"What's going on?"

"Drug overdose. In a hostel. The needle in his hand has not been removed. “

"Haven't you quit already?"

"Who quit?" Sun Lei glanced at Chu Li, and immediately tilted his eyes to a crane-shaped sculpture next to him. "This thing, dyed, will follow for a lifetime. Wherever you go! The more you quit, the greater the addiction. When I came out of the drug rehabilitation center, I was afraid that I would not have a meal, from knocking, to sucking, to injecting. He has a lot of ice impurities, and even if it is not excessive, it will have to be planted sooner or later. “

"How is Grandma Ye?"

Sun Lei sighed, "It is estimated that it is enough to choke, and the white-haired person sends the black-haired person." But I'm sure she's a little mentally prepared. I have seen the world and experienced a lot of ups and downs. Leaflet...... She's really miserable. “

"How have you been? Still busy? “

"Very busy. What about you? “

"I'm not busy. was made redundant. Chu Li said lightly.

"What?" Sun Lei smashed the cigarette butt to the ground. "What are you tossing again?"

"It's really not me tossing this time. I was tossed. “

"Damn." Sun Lei took out a cigarette from his clothes again and hit the end of the filter on the nail of his thumb. hit the tobacco tightly before putting it in your mouth. looked at Chu Li, took the cigarette out of his mouth again, and handed it to Chu Li, who waved his hand and refused.

"And what are your plans?"

"I'll go back to Wuhan next week."

"Not coming back?"

"Come back, I'm going to do something on my own."

"Okay, go back and rest." Sun Lei leaned against the door frame, and the disposable lighter went back and forth several times before it lit the fire. He took a deep breath and exhaled the fumes. "Is Chen Si still in touch?"

Chu Li shook his head.

"About that He Tiantian...... Sun Lei was just about to say something, but was interrupted by a phone voice, he answered a phone call, said hello to Chu Li, and went in to say goodbye to Xiao Ye, and left in a hurry.

"Brother Chu, I received your rent every month, why did you add two hundred?" After Xiao Ye settled his relatives, he came over and told Chu Li. She seems to have recovered a lot, and people don't worry about her anymore.

Xiao Ye will graduate in half a year, and she has already found an internship in a company as a financial assistant. At the same time, he continued his studies in evening school. Since sending Li Qianhui back to Wuhan last year, Chu Li and Xiao Ye have rarely met. The rent was sent to Grandma Ye, and it wasn't until the National Day that Grandma Ye gave Chu Li a note with a string of numbers written on it, saying that it was Xiao Ye's bank card number. From then on, Chu Li sent money to Xiao Ye's card on a monthly basis.

"I asked Abel, and that's how the market is now."

"Xiaoye, I may not live with you next spring."

"Why?"

"I'm looking for a job again."

"Isn't your job good now?"

Chu Li briefly told her about being dismissed. Xiao Ye's two eyebrows were twisted together, looking very worried.

"Don't worry, it's okay, this is a common thing in the enterprise." Chu Li didn't want her to worry about herself at this point in time.

"Are you planning to go back to Hubei? Why don't you stay in Dongguan, it's not so difficult to find a job here, right? If you graduate from a bachelor's degree, you will definitely find a good job. ”

"Xiao Ye, you take care of your uncle's affairs well. I'm going back to Hubei to see my mother. And then I came back. I haven't decided yet. ”

Xiao Ye nodded sadly.

Chu Li rushed to the hospital to see Grandma Ye and found that several relatives were taking care of her. Grandma Ye had woken up and was sitting on the bed wiping her tears. A few people next to him persuaded and coaxed. Seeing Chu Li, Grandma Ye straightened up and shouted, and after others saw it, she gave up a stool. Chu Li didn't know how to comfort the old man, but she seemed to be in good spirits.

Dongguan's white affairs do not need to be widely announced, Ye Jingrong's death does not want to alarm too many relatives and friends, since the body has already been cremated, there is no need to pay tribute and say goodbye with great fanfare, just set up a small mourning hall in the Houjie store and hold a simple farewell party. According to the saying that three days do not choose a day, there is no need to check the yellow calendar. But even so, there is still a lot to prepare. At noon, Chu Li went to the Houjie Market to buy towels and sweets, pins. Fortunately, Grandma Ye's younger brother presided over major events, and Chu Li only had to run errands as a friend, such as accepting silk money and recording the names of relatives and friends. I missed my father's funeral, and I was still young at the time, but now I know how complicated it is.

In the evening, Sun Lei rushed back again, missed the farewell party of the body, and was regarded as disrespectful by Uncle Ye, looking at him with stern eyes. He seemed to be busy and dizzy, forgetting the unfinished conversation with Chu Li at noon, ignoring Uncle Ye's gaze, and after paying the money, he was urged to return to the bureau by phone. When Chu Li handed over the gold and the list to Uncle Ye, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and relatives and friends began to say goodbye one by one, and in the end, there were only Xiao Ye, Uncle Ye and Chu Li.

"Xiao Chu." Uncle Ye doesn't speak Mandarin, and his voice is blown by Kung Fu tea. "Ye Han is a hard-working girl, Ye Xiulian will have such a day in the future, go out and rely on friends, thank you for taking care of her."

Chu Li hurriedly responded, as it should be.

"Listen, her boyfriend is a policeman, isn't it the young man who came and went in a hurry just now?"

Chu Li said that he was very busy, and he was a classmate, so if he didn't take care of himself, please forgive him. Uncle Ye sighed and didn't say anything more.

Xiao Ye came out of the kitchen with two bowls of noodles, Uncle Ye waved his hand, and explained that Xiao Ye remembered to exchange incense and candles at night, and also said goodbye.

Chu Li looked at the bowl of noodles in front of him, with some green onions floating on it, and a poached egg, all of which were clear. The tables and stools in the store were moved by relatives to the back yard, where there was only a cushion on the ground except for a small mourning hall. Chu Li hurriedly brought a table from the courtyard and set it up, and Xiao Ye brought the noodles. The two sat facing each other.

When he was seven years old, Chu Li picked up an injured stray dog on the way out of school, its ears and gray hair on its body were dirty and rolled together, the skin of its nose was bitten when fighting with other dogs, oozing blood, the scarlet skin and flesh were turned over, the tail hung between the legs, and it walked with a limp. But those eyes, dark and watery, revealed a strong desire for life. Chu Li placed it in the corner of his yard, and made a sophisticated nest with his old cotton jacket that was not broken, but had been tightened, and from then on, whenever he came home from school, he could see those black, watery eyes, revealing kindness, love, and vitality that had never been extinguished. The puppy gradually recovered, and it was not until he was in high school that he died happily old.

Chu Li looked at Xiao Ye's eyes, and infinite sympathy swelled in his heart, but he believed that Xiao Ye would definitely cheer up, she should be happy. Xiao Ye was already extremely tired, Chu Li asked her to rest for a while after eating, and the incense candles could be changed by herself. Xiao Ye shook his head, packed up the dishes and chopsticks and walked to the kitchen, and after a while, there was the sound of running water. Later, Xiao Ye walked in front of Chu Li with a thin notebook in his hand.

"This is the book I used before, and when my relatives went to Chang'an's room to move my father's things today, this book was put in the box and was brought over. I took a look, and Chen Si should have used it. You stay. With that, he turned around and went to the backyard to pack his things.

This is a very ordinary, very inconspicuous soft copy. He opened it and looked at it, and the first few pages should be the old-fashioned ballpoint pen that Xiao Ye used to copy texts. There are many blank pages in the back, and then it should be written by Chen Si, and Chu Li recognized the handwriting at a glance. Chen Jing's name was densely written, and then it became Chu Li. The font of the name is sometimes block letters, sometimes scribbled, layer upon layer, and some pages are so tightly written that they even pierce the paper. Chu Li suddenly remembered that a week before Chen Si left, she always got up in the middle of the night. On the last page are a few words: "I love you, and I will definitely live with you in the next life." Forgive me, I can't bear so much. I love you......" Chu Li counted, and there were a total of one hundred and forty-five repeats of "I love you." He pondered repeatedly, believing that this number did not mean anything, and if he turned back, there was only the last page. He tried to get closer, but saw a drop of water fall on the paper. He raised the back of his hand and touched his cheek, it was his own. He put the notebook in the pocket of his coat and felt the warmth of the dancing flame against the incense candle.

Under the rolling shutter door, Sun Lei and Worm and others leaned out. Several people walked in, each of them folded, and Xiao Ye walked in from inside. "Why are you here?"

The insect said: "Team Sun is not worried about you, so I didn't rush over overnight." ”

Xiao Ye thought for a while and said to Sun Lei, "Why don't you let Brother Chu go back?" I'm fine alone. ”

"Sister-in-law, we're here to keep vigil with you."

"No, you still have to go to work tomorrow."

"Worm, Xiao Liu, a few of you are here to accompany me, and I'll send my brother back. Be right back. ”

"I'll be here too, I don't have to go to work right now anyway."

Sun Lei turned his face away in embarrassment. Xiao Ye remembered that Chu Li had just said that he had lost his job.

Several people took turns guarding and chatting until dawn. Chu Li also figured out He Tiantian's affairs, and his plan had to be rearranged.