Amorous Short Stories

The curtains were neatly tied, and the wind was blowing outside the window, and occasionally a convulsive bolt of lightning flashed, flipping twice between the clouds, opening the way for the torrential rain.This huge study room, European style, without the lights on, was soaked in darkness, only a yellow desk lamp was on on the wide table, illuminating a white-haired old man.There is a shallow and long scar on the left side of the old man's face. From the edge of the eye to the bottom of the face, the edges and corners of the face are quite sharp. Looking at the skin alone, he looks like sixty, so the white hair is very abruptly covered on the top of the head.

This white-haired old man had a white head five days ago.

Tao Yisu stood in the middle of the study, three meters away from the old man at the desk, he didn't dare to get too close.

Nian Yao stood by the door, looking for a place to lower his gaze, without saying a word, not wanting to attract any attention.

It was just the three of them in the room, and a great silence.

Tao Yisu explained to Yan Wen what happened, Yan Wen saw the photo, Tao Yisu begged Yan Wen to let him go home, Yan Wen never said a word to Tao Yisu from the beginning to the end.Yan Wen took him on the plane, arrived in Cape Town after landing, found him a hotel to stay in, and never saw anyone again.

Nian Yao took over.He sent someone to investigate the accident in India, went to the security office to retrieve the luggage found at the scene of the accident, and gave it to Tao Yisu.Tao Yisu looked at his backpack, grabbed Nian Yao, and asked him when he could go home.Nian Yao told him, don't think about it.

Tao Yisu smashed and threw his things everywhere, and Nian Yao picked them up.Tao Yisu didn't eat or drink, and no one asked him.Tao Yisu called, but he didn't even know the number of the police.He gradually realized that Yan Wu had much more background than he thought.He lived here for three days, with the windows open, the crowds were bustling, but it was a completely different world, this was where Yan Wu reported to go, and here, they had their careers.

The old man was looking at the letter book. He made a letter book from the letters written by Yan Wu before his death. Yan Wu loved to travel around since he was a child.Yan Wu has been to many places by himself, and he will write letters and send photos when he arrives.It is good to have such an expressive child, at least there is something to miss.

Tao Yisu lowered his head, raised his shoulders, and arched his back, facing the huge silence in the room alone.

Until I heard the voice of the old man: "Yan Wu has always loved traveling and making friends with others. When he was 14 years old, he lived alone in a small town in the Philippines for half a year." The old man recalled while flipping through letters, his eyes warm Falling on the paper, he spoke softly, "He can speak three languages. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child. His marksmanship is very accurate. He is the most talented sniper I have ever seen, but he doesn't concentrate on training..."

Tao Yisu raised his head to look at the old man at the table, who was talking about Yan Wu, with gentle scars and soft edges.Nian Yao said that this is Yan Wu's father.

The old man raised his eyes to Tao Yisu.

Tao Yisu was shocked, his eyes were pure black, embedded in a cold face, the old man sat upright, as if he was going to initiate a trial.

There was a burst of thunder outside the window.

"I used to sometimes wonder how parents who lost their children would live." The old man closed the letter book, "how would they deal with such a thing, especially when the child is still young. He hasn't seen the world much, so To the world, he should be an innocent.

now I know.Parents can sleep at first, get up the next morning, make breakfast, drink water, wash face, just like the previous days, the only difference is that your breathing will slow down, and it will be very laborious to lift your head or eyes.You tell yourself that life has to go on, but you dare not ask why.Then suddenly at a certain moment, just at a certain moment, you realize that you have lost your child, and this idea suddenly entrenched in your mind, whatever you were doing at that time, bathing, eating, writing, all of a sudden stopped, that A feeling of emptiness rolls over, and you know very well that he will not come back. "The old man stared at the closed letter book, which still had Yan Wu Feiyang's signature on it.

"I have seen a lot of life and death, I thought I could bear it. So Yan Wu was going to go to the battlefield, but I still gave him a few years to play and hide him, otherwise people like foxes can find him, train him He teaches marksmanship, fighting, everything he can teach. He learns quickly, is smart and motivated, and the burden of the Yan family will fall on him one day." The old man shook his head at the letter book, smiled self-deprecatingly, and paused After a while, he finally raised his head and looked at Tao Yisu coldly, "Then, you appeared.

I'm not afraid of his death, but not now, it can't be like this.

Yan Wu, no matter how indulgent you are, you shouldn't die for the fault of you and your family. "

Tao Yisu raised his head abruptly, eager to defend himself, almost begging, "No, I don't know, I..."

"You don't know?!" The old man's eyes suddenly became sharp, "You have been there for four full months, and you say you don't know anything!"

Tao Yisu shook his head: "No, I don't understand what they are talking about, and they won't let me..."

"Shut up!" The old man smashed the pen container on the table and hit Tao Yisu's head. Tao Yisu's eyes went dark, blood flowed down and into his eyes, the pens scattered all over the floor, and one rolled to Nian Yao's feet , Nian Yao moved his feet slightly.

The old man looked at Tao Yisu with the eyes he was used to seeing life and death: "Do you dare to say that it has nothing to do with you?"

Tao Yisu didn't speak, he didn't dare to look the old man in the eyes, so he could only slowly move towards the ground.He thought, yes, it should be related, since he pestered Yan Wu to be friends, it has been related.

The old man curled the corner of his mouth viciously: "You will die. If you are not needed temporarily, I will definitely send you to accompany him."

Tao Yisu didn't say a word, there was no place for him to speak here, the old man and his sorrow must be vented by himself.

The old man seemed to be more and more immersed in his own grief and anger, and gradually lost his self-control. He stood up, flipped through the documents on the table, his leather shoes rattled, and walked back and forth anxiously behind the table, swearing a lot, and stood still. Afterwards, he leaned towards Tao Yisu, but he was unwilling to come over. His voice rose, buzzing in the dark room, which was more frightening than the thunder outside the window: "Why is it not you who died!"

In the eyes of the old man, Tao Yisu is a coward, a coward, and a sinister villain. He stabbed Yan Wu in the back and betrayed his friends. I don’t know what kind of tricks he used to make those people believe that Yan Wu is him, and he helped the tyrant to abuse/humiliate Yan Wu to death. .The old man has been in charge of military affairs for many years, maybe he can come up with a loophole if he thinks about it carefully, but if this loophole finally makes Tao Yisu not guilty, he can't think about it anymore.

Even if Nian Yao didn't want to interfere anymore, he had to say something at this time, Yan Yuyou might kill Tao Yisu.

Nian Yao cleared his throat, just wanted to persuade Yan Yuyou, so he said in French: "Nothing can save Yan Wu now."

Yan Yugong patted the table, the things on it shook, he answered clearly in Chinese, looking straight at Tao Yisu: "I know!

So someone has to pay the price. "

————————————————————————————————————————

Tao Yisu was sitting in the room, Nian Yao brought him here in the morning, passed through several checkpoints, and at the last door, he saw Yan Wen and the fox who had just come out of the meeting. The fox saw Tao Yisu and turned to look at Yan Wen. Wen showed no expression, nodded his head as a greeting, and walked away. The fox looked at the two brothers who were not close, and walked over to Tao Yisu: "I thought he would treat his family better."

Tao Yisu didn't answer, the fox saw him so indifferent, shrugged: "It's really a family."

Nian Yao answered from behind: "You have been staying in the base camp for a long time now..."

The fox gave Nian Yao a disdainful look: "Do other dogs bark as badly as you?"

Nian Yao pursed his lips, gritted his teeth, and stood up straight: "You should also be careful. After the general election, you will not be able to stay in South Africa. This is always the way of the world. Someone wins when someone loses."

The fox took one last look at Tao Yisu, smiled contemptuously, turned and left.

Nian Yao looked at his back, cursed, and then pulled Tao Yisu: "This way."

Tao Yisu didn't even ask where he was going.

There are several people in the room wearing white coats, like an office between a doctor and a researcher, if it is not full of weapons on the back shelf, it is more like it.Sitting in the middle of the room was an Asian guy wearing glasses. He was not tall and had a round face. He seemed to be in his early 30s. He was writing something with his head down. When he saw Tao Yisu and the others come in, he stood up and stretched out his hand: Wu, I've heard a lot about you."

Tao Yisu looked at the outstretched hand, paused, and reached out to shake it.

This is followed by a comprehensive physical examination.

"Extend your hand." The doctor asked Tao Yisu to spread his left hand.

Tao Yisu followed suit.

"Hold it."

Tao Yisu gripped it hard, his hands trembling slightly.

The doctor looked at Tao Yisu's trembling hand, turned to the assistant and said, "Bring it here."

The assistant brought an empty gun and handed it to Tao Yisu. The doctor asked Tao Yisu to stand up, go to another room, stand in front of the target, and asked Tao Yisu to raise his hand to aim at the target.

Tao Yisu raised his gun.

The doctor watched him from the side, and carefully suggested: "You...you have to stretch your arms out."

The doctor looked at Tao Yisu's nervously trembling muzzle thoughtfully: "Don't be nervous..."

It had nothing to do with being nervous. Tao Yisu had never been trained and couldn't hold a gun steadily.

"Let's put it down first." The doctor turned to look at Nian Yao, "I heard that Yan Wu's marksmanship is very good..."

Nian Yao nodded, not caring much: "I was injured a while ago."

The doctor took a breath, asked his assistant to bring the film, carefully looked at Tao Yisu's left hand, shook his head, and looked at him: "Being a sniper, maybe..."

Tao Yisu lowered his head.

The doctor thought that his dream was shattered: "With reasonable training and enough exercise, I believe that with your talent, you will soon be able to catch up to the previous level. The important thing is to adjust your mentality..."

Tao Yisu wasn't listening.

The doctor gestured to the person behind, who came with a fingerprint reader, the doctor asked Tao Yisu to stretch out his right thumb, but he saw the scar.The scar was scalded by Nian Yao, for the present.

"What happened to your hand?" The doctor frowned.

Tao Yisu didn't care much: "I accidentally burned it."

The doctor didn't look at it carefully: "Then don't use the original one, let's record it again, and use the left hand to get it."

After the inspection, Tao Yisu began to train with the people in the training camp.Most of the training camps are used by mercenaries between missions to maintain their habits. Compared with the real army, they are relatively loose, but the chief who leads Tao Yisu is preparing to take the heir of the Yan family to the battlefield in the next mission, so his The requirements are very strict.The sixth week was particularly tough, with more than 200 miles of training and 22 hours of physical training every day.Only got about four hours of sleep in five and a half days.I have to eat 7000 calories of food every day, but I still lose weight; when I run to the back, it is not considered running, but a forced stagger, because the muscles are already stiff and the knees are weak.

Have a meal.To practice guns, start with disassembling and loading guns, and then practice holding guns. Tao Yisu's gun holding practice is slower than ordinary people because he has little strength in his hands.The officer started to get a little nervous. He thought that he only needed to prepare for the battle, but he didn't expect Yan Wu's physical fitness to be so poor.Tao Yisu's training is very heavy, most of the time he is not running, climbing walls, or practicing with others.

In order for Tao Yisu to get used to fighting as soon as possible, the officer decided to start with the most practical thing—resisting beatings.

Tao Yisu's passive resistance has caused him serious physical injuries. He doesn't want to fight back, he doesn't want to run, he lacks the meaning of seriousness and persistence in his heart. The other survives.Tao Yisu had no one to talk to, and no one to enlighten him. He was trapped in despair, and whenever he fell asleep, he would have nightmares, and his dreams were full of Yan Wu. Yan Wu said, do me a favor.Tao Yisu cried and asked, how long will it take?Yan Wu didn't speak, and Tao Yisu suffocated for a while after three o'clock, woke up, and stared at the ceiling lifelessly.

Tao Yisu began to think about death, for him, maybe this is a kind of relief.He didn't know whether he should blame Yan Wu's death on himself, or how far he could make up for it. He and the Yan family's understanding of this matter was not in the same dimension at all.The resentment of the Yan family's elders was like a wedge, knocking Tao Yisu against the wall for the Yan family to hate. After being unable to kill the enemy, the only one who can come to pursue the memory is the villain.As for Tao Yisu, he thought, he behaved like this, in order to prove his insensitivity, he changed himself with one sentence, which just showed that he was sensitive. When Tao Yisu was isolated in a foreign country, Tao Yisu almost collapsed, he couldn't get along with himself, and he couldn't accept it. In reality, he knew that he was kidnapped, but he couldn't sort it out with anyone.The education he has received tells him that innocent people can be forgiven, that the souls of the world can heal each other, that the suffering can be redeemed, and that there will be light in the world.

But he couldn't see it.

It was at this time that Tao Yisu met Yan Meng.

Because of Tao Yisu's passive resistance, not to mention his injury, Yan Wu's image was seriously affected, and Yan Wen finally had a formal talk with him.Yan Wen is only 25 years old, his face is calm and calm, usually expressionless, he always looks cold and rarely talks.Tao Yisu sat in Yan Wen's office, sitting in silence with him.When Yan Wen finally dealt with the matter at hand, he looked up at him. Tao Yisu had been sitting quietly on the chair for 10 minutes. For Tao Yisu whose training schedule was full, it was like a vacation.

Yan Wen lit a cigarette, flicked it twice in the ashtray, coughed, spit phlegm into the trash can, looked up at Tao Yisu: "You want to die."

Tao Yisu didn't speak.

Yan Wen took a puff of the cigarette, and the ash on the end of the cigarette accumulated at a speed visible to the naked eye: "If what you told me about what happened there is false, and you push Yan Wu out, then you really want to survive. If it's true," Yan Wen squinted at him and smiled contemptuously, "you want to survive even more."

Tao Yisu looked up at him.

"You can also see, I advise you not to think about leaving anymore, you can't leave for the time being." Yan Wen put out the cigarette, crossed his fingers on the table, and made a look at the person next to him, who came over and handed it to him A stack of documents, "Sign it, and you will work for NT in the future, and your remuneration will be the same as that of the same level. I advise you, once you come, you will be safe."

Tao Yisu glanced at the document and saw the important point, "30 years".

Tao Yisu shook his head, and clenched his hands tightly. He made up his mind that he would die.

"It's a goddamn disaster." Yan Wen snorted, spit again, and glared at Tao Yisu. He thought that Tao Yisu was threatening him by pretending to be Yan Wu.

Tao Yisu didn't say a word, determined to rebel to the end, stood up and wanted to leave.

He walked to the door and heard Yan Wen's voice: "Lishui is such a good place, I've never been there..."

Tao Yisu's heart turned cold, he gritted his teeth and opened the door, and stepped forward without looking back.

After Tao Yisu went out, he didn't go to the boxing ring. He wandered to the roof of the hotel by himself. Here, he could clearly see the shorter buildings. Sitting on the railing and blowing the wind, he could remind Tao Yisu of his own yard at a certain moment. The smell in the house is probably at such an evening, or a little later, when people go home to eat.At that time, grandpa and grandma would set up a table in the yard, stir-fry a few vegetables on it, and then each of them would have a bowl of hot millet porridge, served with mustard mustard, which grandpa loved most.It was at this time that peddlers hawking along the street were selling steamed buns and red bean paste buns on small three-wheelers, and grandma would give herself one yuan to buy three, just in time for dinner.

Tao Yisu sat on the railing, not thinking about anything, but feeling tired.

There was a knock at the door behind him, Tao Yisu turned his head and saw a young woman of mixed race.Seeing someone here, she froze for a moment, then continued to walk over: "Do you mind if I stay here for a while?"

Tao Yisu shook his head.

The woman also stepped over and sat on the railing, looking in the same direction as Tao Yisu.Her hair just reached her shoulders and was blown back by the wind.

The woman took out the cigarette case, took out one, tapped on the cigarette case, thought for a while, and handed it to Tao Yisu.

Tao Yisu glanced at it and took it over.

The woman gave them two points, and the sky was slowly getting dark, and the tiny branches and leaves of the human figure were all hidden, and the eyebrows and eyes were not discernible, only the outline remained, hooking the inner self and coming out to dominate.

The woman asked him, "What do you think of this place?"

Tao Yisu was struggling with the cigarette, and he found that the inside of the cigarette head was about to be bitten off.This is a puffed bead cigarette, and Tao Yisu was learning how to smoke it. He just bit into it, and the smell of peppermint hit his brain, irritating his eyes sorely. "Where? South Africa, or just here?"

The woman smiled and shook her head: "Here, South Africa, and other places are all the same." The woman held a cigarette in her mouth, swayed her legs slightly, leaned on the railing, looked up at the sky, and Tao Yisu looked at her freely. For no reason, I wanted to reach out and pull her, for fear that she would slip and fall, like a butterfly that couldn't keep it.

"I just came here too, and I only heard about it in the past two years. They told me that this place is a paradise on earth for some people. It is used to breed and cultivate ambition and desire. As long as you are bold and ruthless, you can ask for anything. Whether it's money or rights." The woman curled her lips, "When they don't talk about this place, they are so kind, but once they talk here, it's like a different person. I'm always the last to know about family affairs. I have From time to time, I would guess, does this place eat people?"

Tao Yisu turned to look at her, the woman was only seventeen or eighteen, she should be of college age.

"It should be, my brother will not come home again."

The cigarette in Tao Yisu's hand dropped, and he knew who the woman was.

Tao Yisu glanced at the lights below and the wind floating under his feet, and closed his eyes. That's fine, all this is finally coming to an end.

Yan Meng extinguished the cigarette: "I believe in you."

Tao Yisu was startled, and turned to look at Yan Meng.Yan Meng's eyes stopped at a certain place in the night, and she said: "When people go into the woods, in order to win, they light fires to make guns, fight bears, and eagles. Only by defeating lions and tigers can they win. But I want Don't want to win? Aren't there defenseless people in this woods, broken people, broken people, homeless people? What are they going to do?"

Yan Meng looked at Tao Yisu, who didn't know what to say.

“None of us knew how to deal with grief, nor did we get better. There seemed to be a drive in our family that not only discouraged expressing emotion and vulnerability, but even tended to punish it. Uncle would If you hate everyone, my brother will suppress everything. In this place, it may be the most efficient way to deal with it." Yan Meng looked at Tao Yisu tenderly and sadly, "They don't want to believe you, this will make them feel better. I Willing to trust you, because it will make my life easier."

Tao Yisu was one year younger than her, bowed her head, and Yan Meng was like an older sister, looking at his face and at another person: "What about you, what can you do to make it easier?"

Tao Yisu looked at Yan Meng's hand, which was placed next to him. His hand, the blood blisters between the fingers, rubbed again and again when it was good, and it wouldn't take long for it to turn into a cocoon.The other hand is white and clean, without deep lines, but this woman said that she will be here from now on.

Tao Yisu stood up, turned around and went downstairs.

Tao Yisu went straight to Yan Wen, and he passed without anyone stopping him.

Yan Wen was talking to others, when he heard the door knock, he raised his eyes to see Tao Yisu who walked in.

"I'll sign." Tao Yisu stood up straight, "But let me go home."

Yan Wen sat upright: "Complete the first three tasks."

Tao Yisu nodded: "Okay."

After Tao Yisu went out, the man next to him looked at the documents and asked Yan Wen: "Then do I still need to go to Lishui?"

Yan Wen threw the file into the drawer.

"forget it."