My 26-year-old female tenant: Gufan on the Island

Another injured person who had broken his hand in a fight came to the ward. It seemed that because Robben was more seriously injured than him, he found some psychological comfort, so he kept staring at Robben.

Robben was about to get angry, so I picked up the mask he had just thrown to the ground, handed it to him, and said, "Put it on. Others can't see you, and you can't see others. Out of sight, out of mind... Don't fight anymore. There's no place on your body that can get hurt!"

Robben glared at the other man fiercely, then took the mask from my hand and said, "Let me correct you. Others can't see my face, but I can see other people's faces. Can't you see the two big holes in the mask?"

After saying that, he inserted two fingers into the two holes, as if to vent his hatred.

I said again: "Don't stick it in, that's not a hole, it's a window to the soul."

"I don't want to look at anyone else either."

I picked up a mask and covered his eyes with it first, then put the mask on him and said, "Okay, now you can't see others either."

Robben fell into silence, and after a while he shouted "comfortable"; he seemed to be really comfortable, just lying flat on his back, tapping the edge of the bed with his fingers rhythmically, and he was just about to hum a little tune.

I was confused. Can shutting myself off from the world really make me feel so comfortable? I could even forget the pain in my body, at least that was the case for Robben.

He seemed to have completely forgotten that he had just used the most hurtful words to scold CC, the person who cared about him the most.

……

"Ben, now that things have come to this, isn't it time to talk about the reason why you fought with that grandson of the bar association?"

Robben seemed not to hear.

"I asked you to talk, not to poke you in the sore spot... I think the other side has no intention of leaving you a way out. Either you leave Suzhou in disgrace, or start to fight back... As your closest comrade-in-arms, I will definitely join the battle, but I have a principle of not attacking good people. You have to establish the bad guy image of that grandson first, and then I can punish the evil with you."

"Don't worry about it. I told you to chop off that grandson's hand."

"In fact, even if you don't say it, I can guess a little bit...Your beating of that grandson is probably related to CC." After a pause, I continued, "I'm not just guessing, I have a basis...That grandson must be interested in CC, and he also knows that CC's mind has always been on you. He just wants to embarrass you to highlight his own strength...After all, women all admire strong men."

Robben finally spoke up, and was very angry: "Do you think I beat that grandson because I was jealous?"

"Humans are also animals in essence...showing off, fighting, and vying for dominance are all normal animal courtship behaviors."

"Fuck you... I beat that bastard because he was disrespectful to CC... I heard him and his friends talking about CC in the private room, and this bastard had all these disgusting fantasies about CC... If I repeat it to you, you have to beat him too."

Although Robben didn't say it very specifically, I could already imagine the look and meanness of that grandson at that time. I was filled with anger and the urge to fight. After a long while, I finally said to Robben: "Then why didn't you tell CC? The misunderstanding between you two has become bigger!"

"You've already seen what this bastard is doing. I don't want CC to be targeted by him... It's not easy for CC to open a music restaurant. She is tortured by the evil of human nature every day. If a bar association comes to trip her up, how can she continue to run this restaurant?"

I sighed and replied, "When it comes to CC, you need to be calm and have a broad perspective... Why is it that you can't do that when it comes to you?"

"You are the same..."

I was completely silent, and then I replayed the incident in my mind, with me replacing Robben as the person involved; in fact, if it were me, I wouldn't be much better than Robben.

The only thing that is better than Robben is that even if he offends this grandson, since he is not from the bar industry, at least he will not have to worry about being banned; Robben is really miserable, not only was he banned, he was also beaten, and in the end he was deeply misunderstood by CC.

But he couldn't say anything, because if he told CC, CC would definitely fight to the death with that grandson. As Robben said, CC is an outsider girl, and she has been alone for many years, which is full of bitterness and difficulties. As Robben has seen it all, he certainly doesn't want to destroy this hard-earned achievement.

……

"When did the Bar Association become an evil organization?"

I turned my head and saw that the person who was talking was not someone else but Le Yao, who had been in Beijing for a long time. She was always like this, coming and going like the wind, and unexpectedly, she appeared in Robben's ward at this time.

Like CC, she also eavesdropped on my conversation with Robben.

Robben suddenly realized that it was Le Yao, and then he subconsciously tightened the mask on his face, fearing that it would fall off.

……

Le Yao walked over to Robben and me, first looked at Robben, then looked at me, and said, "If you don't take revenge, you are not a gentleman. I have a plan. Do you want to listen?"

"You said."

"I am a new face, so I will get into the Bar Association. The position of president is changed every two years, and the term will be changed soon. If I can become the next president, I will disband the Bar Association on the spot... Then Robben can sing as he likes."

Robben actually listened to such absurd words, and then said to Le Yao: "That shitty association should have been disbanded long ago... But what about the fact that he beat me?"

Le Yao thought for a moment and replied, "This is even simpler. I'll arrange a boxing match for the two of you. You sign a life-and-death agreement, and then you beat him to death."

I finally couldn't stand her absurdity anymore, so I took over and said, "Stop talking nonsense. Your so-called death warrant is an invalid legal act... If you really want to beat him up, you might as well block him in an alley with no surveillance, put a sack on his head, and beat him up."

Le Yao glared at me but didn't say anything. She probably knew she was talking nonsense.

After a while, he turned to Robben and said, "If I had known you would be like this, I would have insisted on accompanying you to do the funeral service... After we parted ways, everyone ended up living such a miserable life!"

Robben sat up from the bed and replied: "It's not too late for you to regret now."

Le Yao turned and looked at me...

I didn't respond, because I didn't want to hear such jokes anymore, and there was nothing I had to do. My heart had been bought by the words "freedom and casualness".

I just want to go to Luoyang and see the city in the sky that Le Yao left behind in Luoyang, but I don’t plan to tell Le Yao about this, even though she is right in front of me.

……

After hearing about this, Le Yao made a special trip from Beijing to see Robben. Judging from the time, she should not have stayed for a moment, but this kind of concern was of no help in solving the problem; so, she just bought a midnight snack for Robben and me, and then left the hospital.

Robben and I both warned her not to tell CC the truth about Robben's fight, but she seemed perfunctory, which made Robben very worried because she never seemed like someone who could keep secrets strictly.

I was also very worried, because I could already imagine the situation that would get out of control once CC knew the truth.

We will most likely have to face off against those people from the Bar Association, and CC's restaurant will be caught in an unpredictable crisis.

I have never misjudged Le Yao. Wherever she is, there will always be disputes and troubles.