together for a moment

Zhao Yimu discovered that it was so easy for a person to disappear.

Nick is a very rich and simple person. He will be attracted by all the novel things in this world and be eager to try, but after cutting the chaff, the only things he loves in his heart for a long time are music and travel.He can travel around and make good friends, and take pictures with every friend he meets by chance, but the people who really make him keep in his heart, I am afraid that he can count them all with one palm.

As for the characters in this palm, apart from family members, they are probably Chen Yisheng, Liu An, Lian Jueliang, Big Brother Li, and then myself.He scanned the faces of these people one by one in his mind, and suddenly came up with an idea for no reason: Could Nick's disappearance be related to Lian Jueliang?

Zhao Yimu took out his mobile phone, he didn't have Lian Jueliang's contact information, so he swipe across the address book, and finally clicked on Chen Yisheng's name, holding a little hope in his heart, maybe Chen Yisheng knew something.

"Brother Zhao?" Hearing the other party's name, Chen Yisheng raised the volume in surprise.

Hearing this reaction, Zhao Yimu knew that Chen Yisheng was probably out of order, so he asked without hope, "Yisheng, has Du Xiaopian been in contact with you recently?"

"Du Xiaopian? No, I haven't contacted him for a while. I thought he was busy." Chen Yisheng paused, then hesitatingly said, "What's the matter? You two...argued?"

"Yisheng, something happened to Du Xiaopian, I need your help." Zhao Yimu cut straight to the point.

"Do you suspect that Brother Liang took Du Xiaopian away?" After hearing the ins and outs of the incident, Chen Yisheng felt like acting in a TV series, which was a bit outrageous, "Let's not talk about whether Brother Liang will be so extreme. If you don't want to...how can you go with him?"

"I don't know," Zhao Yimu was so anxious that he wanted to face the other party through the microphone, "maybe...maybe he used some means to make even Du's mother disappear from the hospital, don't you think it's strange?"

"Well...don't worry, I'll call Brother Liang and ask." Chen Yisheng said.

"Yisheng, don't tell the story of Du Xiaopian's disappearance straight to the point, let's find out first." Zhao Yimu reminded him.

"Don't worry. I know how to say it." Chen Yisheng understood what he meant, "What about it? Let's make an appointment to meet and talk at night."

In the evening, Chen Yisheng and Zhao Yimu made an appointment at a music bar, where their orchestra would always be on stage. Zhao Yimu just poked his head out of the door, and immediately a waiter came to guide him to the box. As soon as the door opened, the three people in the box all swiped Looking over, besides Chen Yisheng and Liu An, Lian Jueliang was also there, and Zhao Yimu didn't know how to react for a moment.

"Brother Zhao, you are here, sit down," Liu An moved to make a seat for him.

"Sit down." Sensing the defensiveness in his eyes, Chen Yisheng first laid out the most important thing, "Du Xiaopian is fine, he is at brother Liang's house now."

Obviously, Chen Yisheng's understanding of the word "nothing" is different from that of Zhao Yimu. How could Nick be at Lian Jueliang's house when he was nothing?He met Lian Jueliang's eyes, and it took about a second to fully convey his distrust and hostility with his eyes before sitting in the vacant seat Liu An had vacated for him.

"Brother Zhao, do you know about Du Xiaopian's car accident?" As soon as he sat down, Liu An threw a shock bomb first.

"Car accident?" Zhao Yimu's heart twitched, and he asked weakly, "Is it serious? Where did you get hurt?"

Asking this question is equivalent to revealing some information. Lian Jueliang raised his eyebrows, picked up the whiskey on the table, took a sip, and said slowly: "It seems that Mr. Zhao hasn't been in touch with Pianpian for a long time. I can know you guys What is the reason for not contacting?"

"This is a matter between the two of us." Zhao Yimu didn't want to talk too much about people he didn't trust.

"Yes, it's about the two of you. Since Pianpian didn't take the initiative to contact you, there's no need for me to talk too much," Lian Jueliang drank the wine in his glass and was about to get up: "Today, I will treat you as if I came here in vain. a trip."

"Hey, hey," Chen Yisheng quickly hugged him, "I've already paid for the box, and it's not cheap. Our band will be on stage later, so I leave it to you two. Let me explain clearly here." After that, he grabbed Liu An, who still had a piece of braised chicken gizzard in his mouth, and rushed out the door.

After Chen Yisheng and Liu An left the box, the only sound in the box was the crackling sound of ice cubes melting in the wine glass.

"A while ago...my mother found out about me and Pianpian, she hoped that we could calm each other down," Zhao Yimu decided to put down his airs first, and said frankly, "So we haven't contacted for a month."

"A lot of things have happened this month," Lian Jueliang stared at the orange liquid in his hand, as if talking to himself with the glass, "I don't know why Pianpian suddenly changed her job, and every day she took her musical instrument to play everywhere. To make money, relying on a motorcycle to shuttle around the city in the biting cold wind. After work, I ran to the hospital. Mother Du was not in good condition. The previous nurse had a negligent attitude. When I met Du Mama when I met him, he held his stomach and pretended nothing had happened, and didn’t tell me a word of suffering. Now it seems that he didn’t tell you about these sufferings.”

Zhao Yimu couldn't help clenching his fists with his hands on both sides.

"Ten days ago, on a rainy night when he was riding his bicycle back to the hospital, he stalled and skidded and hit the separation island. He was thrown out. The police contacted me from the phone call log." Lian Jueliang finally shifted his gaze. When it came to Zhao Yimu, there was a hint of pride in the half-smile, "I arranged the best hospital for their mother and son, and Pian Pian was discharged from the hospital last week, but her shoulder was still in plaster and her left leg was stitched up. It’s all right, rest at my place now.”

"Thank you for your help," Zhao Yimu was terrified, wishing to fly to Nick's side immediately, "Can I see him now?"

"Look at him?" Lian Jueliang let out a laugh, squinted at him, and said, "I want to ask first, what is your mother's attitude now? Is it acceptable for your son to date someone of the same sex?"

"..." Zhao Yimu couldn't answer, Tang Qing's attitude was loose, but he couldn't tell whether he would accept it or not.

"I used to stand in your position." Lian Jueliang sipped his wine little by little, and said casually, "Loving someone is like committing a heinous crime, whether it's meeting your lover or your family. There is a sense of guilt, scruples about one and the other, neither side pleases. You are walking my old path, and the circumstances are somewhat similar, but in fact the two of us are fundamentally different."

"My sexual orientation has not changed since junior high school, and even the person I like has never changed." Lian Jueliang relaxed his back and leaned back on the sofa, and raised his chin at Zhao Yimu, "But you are different, you I have lived as a straight man for more than [-] years, and today I met Pianpian and became curvy. Will I meet a girl and be straight again one day, or wait until you are a few years older, and one day I scroll through the circle of friends and see that they are all friends A co-worker’s baby photos, suddenly want to get married and have children?”

"Your mother probably also expects you to come back straight one day," Lian Jueliang began to play with the wine glass in his hand again, rubbing his thumb on the rim, "Is there really no such possibility?"

"It's not about straightness, I love him." Zhao Yimu replied without thinking.

"Hahaha, as expected of a lawyer, his words are so nice." Lian Jueliang asked him mockingly: "So what if you love him? Like now when he is injured and needs someone by his side, how can you disregard the feelings of your family members?" , stay by his side?"

"I..." Zhao Yimu knew he couldn't do it, at least not yet.

Lian Jueliang took out the cigarette case from his suit pocket and pounded it in his hands, "To be honest, before I came to the appointment today, I asked him if he wanted to come together, but he said no, so I came by myself."

"How is it possible!" Zhao Yimu narrowed his eyes and said through gritted teeth, "Are you hiding him?"

"How can I hide him at such a big age? He doesn't see you because he is afraid of stressing you." Even Jue Liang took out a cigarette and held it in his mouth without lighting it. He squinted at him, "I advise you to take care of your family affairs. Well, come to him again, don’t let him worry that one day you might not be able to bear the expectations from the previous generation, and you don’t have to go out to spend the night and pile up with lies.”

Lian Jueliang lit his cigarette and took a deep breath, stood up, called the driver to pick him up, then walked to the door to leave, put his hands on the doorknob, turned sideways and said, "Mr. , don’t you think that I can bring him more happiness now than you?” After speaking, he didn’t wait for Zhao Yimu’s reaction, and walked away directly.

Nick sat lazily on the chair in Mama Du's ward, staring at the regular drops of water in the drip bottle in a daze.Lian Jueliang should be meeting Zhao Yimu. Thinking about it, he has not seen him for a long time. Although he can think about their beautiful past several times a day when he is recuperating, he can only hug and kiss when he sees people. No matter what, it is just like a slideshow, and it is just like a slideshow, leaving nothing but melancholy.

"Huh? You haven't gone back yet?" Mother Du opened her eyes and looked at him.

"Sit for a while, how did you wake up?" Nick leaned closer to his mother and said that Du's mother's pneumonia caused by a cold dragged on for too long, and she almost caused sepsis due to a bacterial infection. Antibiotics, the condition improved significantly.

"I've been sleeping for too long. I won't have a chance to talk to you if I don't talk to you again." Mama Du moved to sit up. Nick had no choice but to raise the bed higher.

"There's no chance. The doctor said you're getting better. Just be careful and you'll be fine." Normally, Nick would put on a face and ask his mother not to speak sad words, but tonight he didn't have the strength to stop anything , life is so depressing.

"Huh? Where is your usual raised eyebrows?" Mom also noticed his abnormality, and laughed and teased him, "Why, did you quarrel with your partner?"

"No..." Nick remembered Lian Jueliang's question "What have you paid?" Nick was very upset, he scratched his head and asked softly: "Mom, I don't seem to have anything I can do for him, a straight man is broken Ben, the target is a person who has no money and debts..."

"There is also an old mother who is sick in bed." Mother Du answered this sentence for him.

"Stop talking." Nick sat up straight with a snap.

"You have a bad temper." Madam Du stretched out her hand from under the quilt, and pulled her son closer to speak tactfully, "Don't think about it, I didn't just know you today, I think that child is really kind to you. Back then when your father took me to elope, he was a poor boy with no money, no education and no background, but I was willing to walk with him, and looking back on my life, I have no regrets."

"That's you stupid." Nick smiled and seemed to be in a better mood.

"Hey Pianpian, I miss your dad." Mama Du grabbed him hard, not letting him let go, "If one day I leave, you can go through the process of abandoning the inheritance. You can't keep the building, but your life will be free..."

"Mom, I'm really angry if you tell me again!" Nick twisted his arms and didn't want to hear it.

"Pianpian!" Mama Du, who has always been gentle, sternly snarled, especially majestic, "Mom is sometimes sober and sometimes foolish. Don't say it while you can speak now. Are you waiting to die to dream? Every time I talk about this, you will say Angry, but do you know how helpless my mother is lying in the hospital? I have been hospitalized for three or four years, and time has long been meaningless to me. Spring, summer, autumn and winter can only be displayed in the window of the ward. If that day really comes, you have to know, Mom can finally be freed from this tattered body, and can finally see the outside world."

Nick bit his lip tightly, all the muscles in his face tensed, trying not to cry in front of his mother.

"Son, every time I hear you tell me where you travel, what scenery, what interesting things you meet, I am fascinated, and I always want to go and have a look." Mama Du smiled lightly, without any sadness, she hooked Nick closer Squeezing his face, "Last time you said that the sunrise on the Ganges River in India is beautiful, peaceful and spiritual. Can you show me the photos tomorrow?"

"Okay." Nick rolled his Adam's apple up and down a few times, and nodded in agreement.

But just three hours after Nick left the hospital, Ms Du put a plastic bag over her head and took her life firmly.

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