"You once drew a mask for me. You said you hoped I would never need it."

"Happy birthday."

——Excerpt from "Liu Liang Diary" on May 2014, 12

After Cheng Weizhi got off the plane, he took a moment in his heart and bought a high-speed rail ticket that could reach Xiyang the fastest with his ID card.As for going to Wang County, he had already forgotten which bus he should take back from the city.

Forget it, Cheng Weishi thought to himself, he might as well take a taxi when the time comes.

This message was quickly sent to Tudou.Tudou originally planned to finish the basket of French fries, and follow Duan Kejia's instructions to go to the little star's home in S City.

Now he has to pick up the chips faster.

Obviously, Cheng Weishi had already got off the plane.

Tudou sent a message to Duan Kejia: "He really bought a ticket back home."

Duan Kejia and Liu Zhonglin had already boarded the plane.

Unfortunately, they only bought the last position of the whole cabin, and it is not even a serial number.

The first-class and business-class cabins are all full, otherwise, as Duan Kejia is, the airline will definitely give him an upgrade.

Liu Zhonglin was looking for information on the computer in the last lapse of time before takeoff.

"One of the 25 families surnamed Cheng in Xiyangwang County has the closest contact with their family." At the beginning, Liu Zhonglin's eyes flashed a light, probably because he was about to learn the truth, so he was a little excited.

But immediately after, the brilliance in Liu Zhonglin's eyes dimmed again.

Duan Kejia obviously noticed something strange.

Liu Zhonglin continued: "The son of that family is named Cheng Kongqian, who is about the same age as Cheng Weishi's mother. But when Cheng Weishi was 12 years old, he was sentenced to death for murder. And..."

"Not probation."

……

It takes less than an hour to get to Xiyang from P city by high-speed train.

Cheng Weizhi feels that the speed of technological development is really getting faster and faster.

He hadn't returned to his hometown for many years. He looked around the train station and felt that he didn't have the slightest impression at all.

Oh yes, he remembered, in fact, he hadn't been on a train much when he was young.

After getting into a taxi, Cheng Weishi showed the destination on his mobile phone, and then leaned on the back seat in a daze. The enthusiastic taxi driver took the initiative to chat with him: "Hey boy, did you come back by the high-speed train? This high-speed train How is the station? Is it clean? It was built in the past two years."

Speaking of this, Cheng Weishi realized that it was no wonder he had no memory of the train station just now.

Because the high-speed rail station is newly built.

Cheng Weizhi leaned against the window to look at the scenery, and heard Liu Liang's song being played on the radio station that the taxi driver was listening to.

Hearing Liu Liang's singing, the taxi driver shook his head and sighed: "Hey, this guy's songs are pretty good, why did he die? The radio station spent the whole afternoon playing his songs on a loop, saying it was to mourn him. When I heard the news of his death in the morning, my daughter cried so hard that she couldn’t hear it. Speaking of which, my daughter adores him very much. She follows his news every day, goes to his concerts, and seems to like him and a man named Zhong Fei The cp... What is cp? Can it be eaten?"

Cheng Weishi didn't even have the strength to force a smile with the driver.

He remembered that he still had Liu Liang's notebook with him.

Seeing that he didn't reply, the taxi driver didn't stop talking, he was still talking freely: "You said that these people in the entertainment industry don't make money easily, they are under a lot of pressure, they are stared at by the paparazzi every day, and they suffer from depression every now and then. Ah, neurasthenia. I did a special search, and every year there are stars who die of depression, but except for Liu Liang, no one else has heard of the name. It may be because they have not been popular, so they cannot bear the pressure and commit suicide. Alright."

It was the first time Cheng Weizhi wanted to shut up a person so much at such an age.

He thought in his heart: "Master, I'm a little uncomfortable, I want to sleep, can I?"

Cheng Weizhi began to stare at the driver with both eyes, which were clear and frightening.

The driver saw it in the rearview mirror and was startled. Then he realized that he was really annoying: "...I'll turn down the volume of the radio."

Cheng Weishi closed his eyes.

He was in a taxi and had another dream.

he dreamed—

Later, he lived behind Cheng Kongqian's shop for more than three months, helping to clean up and organize pirated discs every day.

Cheng Kongqian owns a CD player and a small TV. He often puts his feet up on the table and watches newly purchased European and American movies, Japanese and Korean ghost movies, and pornographic movies.Of course, it is impossible to watch raw movies in front of Cheng Weishi.

He felt that he had picked up a cheap son for nothing, and he was quite complacent in his heart. He always called this child "Cheng Weishi", and when he was happy, he called him "cheap son".

One day, he asked Cheng Weishi: "How old is my son, should he go to school?"

Cheng Weizhi was about to nod, but Cheng Kongqian shook his head first: "I think you are only five years old with your small body. You are not old enough to go to school. Besides, you are bullied when you go to school, and you are not can speak."

Cheng Kongqian probably had never heard of such a high-end school for the deaf.

He took the new "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" and put it in the CD player. The faces of Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi did not appear on the TV screen, but a static picture of a violin instead.

"Where's my Gong Li?!" Cheng Kongqian pressed the CD player and raised his hand to shoot the TV. After more than two minutes, no other images appeared, and then he began to comfort himself, "...the pirated disc is really a pirated disc. Zhang Die was sold to people in the village, otherwise they would have to say that I sold him parallel imports."

What Cheng Weizhi was thinking at the time was that pirated discs were parallel imports.

A melodious sound of music gradually came out from the loudspeaker of the TV. It was a piano and violin concerto. Of course, the two of them didn't know what it was playing at that time.

Cheng Kongqian was about to take the disc out when he suddenly heard a male duck's voice coming from behind. The voice was high and low, which sounded very funny.

Cheng Kongqian turned his head to look, and found that the child behind him was humming along to the TV seriously, but it was a pity that it didn't sound very good, probably because his voice hadn't been used for a long time.

While he couldn't help laughing, he felt surprised. It was really strange how this dumb kid could sing out loud while listening to such a song without a voice on TV.

Cheng Kongqian then ignored the parallel discs in the CD player and rushed up to ask Cheng Weishi, "How can you make a sound?"

Cheng Weizhi spoke intermittently: "I, I don't know, I know."

"Do you like the music played here very much?" Cheng Kongqian couldn't believe it, frowning and hesitating, "What's so good about it... there are only instruments but no vocals. Jacky Cheung's songs are good."

Cheng Weishi pursed his mouth and bulged his cheeks, looking very aggrieved, and stopped talking.

"Okay, okay, I won't talk about it, yours is the best, yours is the best." Cheng Kongqian had an idea, and immediately came up with a way to make Cheng Weishi happy, "I heard that the city P next door is holding an The ice sculpture show is only available during the day, and some parents nearby took their children to see it, and they all said it was beautiful, so let's get up early tomorrow to see it too?"

In fact, it was Cheng Kongqian who wanted to go to P City to see the ice sculptures, but he didn't want to go out to play alone in the winter, so he asked his cheap son to find an excuse for it.

At that time, Cheng Weishi was only seven years old, at the age full of curiosity about everything, so he nodded and agreed immediately: "Okay! Tomorrow, I will go tomorrow."

The next day, the two got up and set off before the sun came out of the mountain.Cheng Weishi was wearing the little padded jacket that Cheng Kongqian bought for him, with his little hands tucked into his sleeves, and was just taken to the bus station by his cheap father in a tricycle.

The two bought the tickets to reach P city, and took the bus from Xiyang all the way to P city. Cheng Weishi didn't dare to say aloud to go to the bathroom on the way, and almost peed his pants in the end.

As Cheng Weizhi said to Duan Kejia and Liu Zhonglin before, the first time he came into contact with the piano so closely was when he saw the piano ice sculpture at the ice sculpture exhibition.I fell in love with it at first sight.

Cheng Weizhi pointed to it and said to Cheng Kongqian: "Dad, Dad, I like this."

"Oh, Dad, I also like piano." Cheng Kongqian was very happy when he first heard this name, "When I was working outside, I was lucky enough to see someone else play it, not to mention how elegant it is, and my fingers are as fast as crazy. ..."

Cheng Kongqian realized that his description seemed to ruin the beautiful mood at that time, so he quickly changed his words, "It's not crazy, it's just very good anyway, I heard that the piano is expensive and difficult to learn, but if I have a son someday, it will be a waste of money Let him learn a musical instrument too, and not let him live like his father, living a mediocre life every day." Cheng Kongqian lowered his head and thought of a relatively high-end word, "Well... let him live a more delicate life than me."

Cheng Weizhi looked up at him eagerly.

Cheng Kongqian smiled at him: "Although sometimes, I do feel that you are very similar to me, but you are not my real son. One day your parents will come to you, right?"

Cheng Weizhi stopped talking.

One day two weeks later, Cheng Kongqian heard someone say that his old friend from the village next door lost his son. At first, he was quite normal, but then he went crazy and stopped taking customers. Crying blind.

When the person who came to buy the discs mentioned this incident, Cheng Weizhi happened to be behind with a broom sweeping the cobwebs on the wall.

Cheng Kongqian was halfway through the conversation with the man, his face was livid, and he turned his head to glance at him from time to time.

After the man left, Cheng Kongqian called Cheng Weishi to stop him, and walked around the room for half a circle, looking desperate.He scratched his head, raised his voice and asked, "Are you Xiaoni's child?"

The other party didn't mention his mother's name, but Cheng Weishi knew that Cheng Kongqian was talking about his mother.He nodded tremblingly.

"Fuck!" Cheng Kongqian overturned a drawer of discs that Cheng Weizhi had just tidied up in the morning, and all the discs in the cardboard package fell to the ground with a "crash".He sat on the chair with his legs crossed, pulling the hair on his forehead, as if trying not to get angry, "You go! Before I feel like hitting someone."

Cheng Weishi turned pale with fright at Cheng Kongqian's sudden anger.With tears in his eyes, he ran out quickly.

Halfway through the run, I heard Cheng Kong calling him from behind: "Wait, when were you born?"

Cheng Weizhi timidly announced his birthday.

Cheng Kongqian made up his mind, clenched his fist, took the key and unlocked the tricycle in front of the door: "Come up, I'll take you to the county hospital, and then send you back to your home."

Cheng Weishi was taken to the county hospital for a paternity test. The doctor told Cheng Kongqian that if another match was done, the paternity test would be free for Cheng Kongqian.Cheng Kongqian agreed.

For families like them, the paternity test is a lot of money.

The specific results won't come out for a while. After finishing, Cheng Kongqian sent Cheng Weishi home, but of course he didn't deliver it to the door. He couldn't afford to lose that face.After riding to a small alley more than 100 meters away, he put Cheng Weishi down.

Cheng Weizhi looked back at Cheng Kongqian's mistress disappearing around the corner, and then knocked on the door of his house.

As soon as his mother saw him, she put down the clothes in her hand and ran over, hugging him and weeping bitterly, self-criticism while crying, crying from afternoon to night.

In the evening, his mother steamed a pot of meat buns for him to eat.

"Eat as much as you want."

Cheng Weishi felt flattered like never before, it was the first time his mother treated him so well.

Of course, the good times didn't last long.

A few days later, his mother started to drink again, and when she came back, she went crazy, pulled his ears and asked him: "Where did you go the other day?! How did you get the clothes on your body?! Where did you go? Ah!"

Cheng Weizhi was so frightened that he was half dead, and quickly said: "I'm going to Cheng Kongqian's place... He, he asked me to call him, his father!..."

His mother suddenly stopped talking, her eyes widened and she started to back away, trembling as she backed up.

After a while, her mother's expression gradually cleared up, as if she was sober, she picked up her high heels and wanted to chase him, Cheng Weishi was most afraid of fucking high heels, they were painful and hot when they were pumped on him, so she went to the door crying run outside.

As soon as I ran outside, the door closed with a "snap".

His mother shouted from behind the door: "I don't know! Don't call me mother anymore! Go find him!"

In the end, I added another sentence, with a crying voice: "I... I don't want you anymore!"

When he was a child, Cheng Weizhi didn't have that many brains at all, he didn't know that there were actually other deep meanings in his mother's words.He only heard his mother say that he was not wanted anymore, and ran to Li Village crying, outside the pirated disc shop, knocking on the door.

"Wow! Dad! My mother doesn't want me anymore! Wow!..."

Cheng Kongqian didn't plan to open the door at first, because he had already gone to the hospital today to get the result of the paternity test, which had not been opened in the envelope, and wanted to wait until he saw the result before opening the door.

The sound of Cheng Weizhi crying and howling outside the door was as disturbing as a cat's nails on the door frame.

Cheng Kong subconsciously opened the door, and the first thing he saw was this little face that looked so much like him crying into folds of flesh.

His heart softened immediately.

"Don't cry..." Cheng Kongqian pulled him into the room and poured him a cup of hot water, "Don't cry, your voice will become hoarse if you cry any more. Your mother doesn't want you anymore? Why?"

"I don't, I don't know." Cheng Weizhi changed from crying loudly to sobbing softly.

Cheng Kongqian glanced at the envelope in his hand, and then looked at the child's serious and well-behaved appearance while drinking water. It looked very much like Xiaoni's face and his facial features.It looks more and more like it.

There are still a few drops of tears hanging from the corners of the eyes, which is pitiful and cute.

The more I look, the more I like it.

If this is his own son...

He felt that if he became a father in the future, he would definitely look at his son with such loving and gentle eyes as now.

"Damn it, never mind!"

Cheng Kongqian threw the envelope into the coal stove, and let the fiery coals devour the scraps of paper. He picked up Cheng Weishi and carried it on his shoulder, and turned it around.

"Even if I wear a cuckold, I will recognize it in my life!!"

"Cheng Weishi, you will be my son from now on!"

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