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Everything is messed up.

Things have become extremely difficult, and Tao Ran even began to think in his heart that if the person who was beaten later had to go to the hospital for a medical examination, how much credit was left in his several cards, and whether it would be enough to cover the medical expenses first.

Chang Zheng overturned other people's tables, smashed at least a dozen glasses, and unfinished and unopened wine bottles were also broken all over the floor, making a mess everywhere.Tao Ran's ears were buzzing, and he was anxious inside and out. He turned his head and looked at Chang Zheng beside him.

Subconsciously, he raised his hand to hold Chang Zheng's finger.I wanted to ask what's the matter with you, but the tentacles were all wet and cold, and there was a half-dried sticky liquid on the knuckles. Tao Ran let go of him and looked at the light, it was indeed blood.

Maybe it was because his face was too gloomy and his eyes were too complicated. After being stared at by him for a long time, Chang Zheng finally shook his head invisibly and squeezed out three words from his throat.

"I am fine."

This was not the time to argue with him, Tao Ran tried his best to control himself, took a deep breath, and planned to find out what the real injured person was thinking next.The crowd who joined in the fun was persuaded to disperse by the bar owner with a cold face, and the volume in the store gradually returned to the volume it should have in the early morning. In order to reconcile the atmosphere, the DJ specially played a few fast-paced jazz songs. absurd.

To his surprise, the victim who was beaten like that by Chang Zheng had quietly left.The buddies drinking at the same table with him still wanted to help him out, but he left alone, and then called back to his friends specifically, telling them to stop making trouble, and this matter is over.

Previously, his attention was all on Chang Zheng, these were relayed to Tao Ran by Chen Yang and Ye Qi.He took the initiative to ask for compensation for the loss in the store, and Chen Yang patted him on the shoulder just like he did when he was studying.

"I've already paid for it for you. There are our shares here, and I'll just pay the actual price."

Seeing that Tao Ran wanted to talk, Ye Qi immediately grabbed the words: "Do you dare to say that you want to pay back the money? Why don't you say something?"

It seems that I don’t know anything about it, that I was implicated by innocence, and that my boyfriend and ex-boyfriend’s old affairs splashed on my face for no reason. It’s so sad and deplorable. My friends from college feel that I should take action to settle it for him. .

Tao Ran could only smile wryly, and said "Thank you" while sighing.

At the end of that night, Ye Qi, the only one who didn't drink, drove Chen Yang's car and sent a group of people to the door one by one.There are too many plays in these few hours to watch, and it is rare for customers to come here. Not only did they not play well, but they also had to accompany them to say some comforting words, which was boring to think about.Ye Qi saw him off first, and then on the way to Tao Ran's house, there was no sound in the car anymore.

Everyone lowered the car windows to the bottom at the same time, the autumn was already deep, and the night wind was far from gentle, but no one said it was cold.

When they got downstairs, Chang Zheng thanked him in a low voice, and opened the door first to get out of the car.Ye Qi suddenly turned around and called to Tao Ran who was about to follow.

"You don't know anything?"

Tired of even making one more expression, Tao Ran looked at his friend with calm eyes that were almost frozen: "... I don't know so much."

"Then... don't be impulsive. If there are some things that are difficult to say, then don't say them first."

"Well, thanks. I know it myself."

After tossing all night, Chang Zheng probably felt that he couldn't take it anymore, and went upstairs directly after getting out of the car, without waiting for Tao Ran to join him.What a thoughtful person he is usually, Tao Ran couldn't tell what it was like, he was overwhelmed with both sour and bitter.After he took a few steps upstairs, Tao Ran saw that he was still at the door, and the fingerprint lock rang several times, but the door was still not opened.

"I have blood on my hands, I may not be able to recognize it, come on."

Tao Ran went over and tried it himself, but it still didn't work, so he searched his pockets to find a tissue, carefully wiped the blood-stained identification area, and the two of them were able to enter the door.

He did all the disinfection and debridement by himself. Tao Ran sat on the sofa without saying a word and didn't help him.After a while, seeing Chang Zheng took his clothes and went into the bathroom, thinking of his hands that had just been painted with iodine, he finally couldn't sit still.

The sliding door was opened, inside Chang Zheng had just taken off his shirt, and was carefully wringing out a towel to wipe himself.

Tao Ran wanted to help him very much, but all the incidents that happened that night were like an invisible wall, which made him really unable to act as if nothing had happened.The "Let me help you" that I was about to say was finally replaced by a real voice from the bottom of my heart.

"You and Wu Guizhou, back then... what happened?"

Chang Zheng turned his back to him and stopped moving.

If the long silence had any substance, Tao Ran gradually began to feel difficult to breathe.Faintly, he realized that compared with Chang Zheng's, the difficulty he felt at the moment was even more difficult than anything else.

The wall clock on the outer wall of the bathroom looks like an ignorant child. The adults in the family are holding their breath, and it is still screaming about the passage of time without a wink.Silence is like an invisible hand, holding Tao Ran's heart, slowly tightening it.

Just when he was about to give up waiting and turn around to go out, Chang Zheng finally spoke as if he had exhausted his courage for half his life.

"I..." I haven't spoken for a long time, his voice is already hoarse, and he can only speak clearly: "I really can't speak. Let me find someone to talk to you."

So this absurd day was followed by an even more absurd end.

Chang Zheng didn't even use the address book, so he directly entered a series of numbers on the dial pad, and then went hands-free.It should be that he saw the name of the person on the caller ID, Wu Yueyin's voice was full of deep hesitation, and even mixed with a little embarrassment, but after all, he answered the call in the middle of the night.

"...Chang Zheng?"

"Yue Yin, it's me."

There was a choke almost immediately.

Wu Yueyin's personality has always been extremely strong, Tao Ran was shocked when he heard it from the side.Her only explanation for this is that although the old things they knew each other had been hidden in the scabbard for many years, when they suddenly came out of the scabbard, blood could still be seen.

Chang Zheng's voice was still steady, but it was at the end of his strength: "When you paid me back for Guizhou, you once said that you owed me a favor. Now... can you do me a favor?"

Wu Yueyin was obviously trying to hold himself up: "What do you need me to do?"

"Tomorrow, tomorrow I will ask Tao Ran to come to you. I think he should know what happened back then, please tell him for me...don't save me any face."

"you sure?"

"Yes." Chang Zheng looked at Tao Ran, the content in his eyes was almost desperate: "I don't need face between you and Tao Ran."

The day before, we had talked about this for the sake of it. When Tao Ran actually sat opposite Wu Yueyin, he rarely knew what attitude he should take to face her.

When Wu Yueyin was fiddling with some celadon cans in the compartment of the coffee table, Tao Ran tried his best to make a little noise: "Why didn't you make an appointment today? Is Xun Yan recovering from his illness? Are you... ...Let your brother take him out to avoid it?"

Wu Yueyin opened the lids of several kinds of tea and smelled them, as if he had never heard of Tao Ran's struggle: "Come and choose, what tea do you drink today?"

Tao Ran was actually distracted, he was a little afraid of what he would hear later, so he answered her casually: "Um... did you give birth to Pu'er?"

Wu Yueyin couldn't help laughing: "At this time, you have to drink raw Pu'er...very good, then you probably have the psychological quality to finish listening to this story."

Ripe tea has a pleasant aftertaste, while raw tea is extremely bitter, Tao Ran smiled when he came to his senses.Isn't this what words mean.

At this moment, he really felt that he could make a glass of raw pudding for his own concerns.

"Since I really want to talk about this, how can I ask you out?" Wu Yueyin turned around and took out a box of assorted cookies from the low cabinet, and signaled Tao Ran with his eyes to match the tea: "I need to sit at home and watch Only when everything is as usual, can I open my mouth to tell you this."

At the end of the words, it has become a sigh.

This conversation, which went from the sun to the sun, to the sun's shadow, began with this sigh.

In the winter in Wu Yueyin's memory, the clouds in his hometown were low and snowy.The wind lingered on the empty streets, but whenever it passed through the alleys and the terrain changed suddenly, it was a creepy scream.

This is not an unusual scene, every previous winter, the town has been in the same situation.The winter coats are bloated, and the people who wear them look like clumsy puppets, but they still think they are not thick enough.Before the snow fell, dark clouds hung over everyone's hearts.

——Just like the days here, gloomy, hopeless, and endless.

Wu Yueyin, who came out of the train station, dragged his suitcase for a while in such a weather, before realizing that maybe he should call a car.

But it was so late, long past the time when the lights in this town were still on, where could she go to call a car.

She was just a sophomore at that time.Passing the exam once satisfied her, but the next few holidays came and went in a hurry, the outside world was far more attractive than the lifeless atmosphere here.

It was precisely because of her intentional or unintentional neglect of the family over the past year, and her mother's phone call a few days ago, that she was extremely panicked.

At least the family was happy until she left for school.My father's small business is going well, and my mother stays at home all year round to manage the housework. My brother who is two years younger than her is excellent in his studies and has almost never lost his first place in the school.

Even during the recent summer vacation, everything was fine.Before going back to school, she thought about telling her younger brother a few words, but she was teased with a smile, saying that he didn't need others to tell him how to study, and when others asked him, it depended on his mood and whether he wanted to answer.

Countless details of family harmony, and mother's uncontrollable crying on the phone, tearing her mind back and forth along the way, she was exhausted.On the way from the train station to the town hospital, her bones started to ache from the cold, and she always regretted that she came out in such a hurry that she didn't wear the thickest down jacket.

The red dress she is wearing now is pretty useless. If she was still at home, her always thrifty mother would not have allowed her to buy such flashy clothes.In fact, all the choices made by the people in their hometown are just to survive, and it is so difficult to live, who cares about looking good.It was only after Wu Yueyin developed the desire to leave that he gradually realized that not everyone should live like this.

Maybe she forgot that the profile is still wearing this back, just hope that this touch of red can separate her from the gray houses.

She has gone out.She just came back to see, there was no way she would be entangled again.

Hospitals in small places only have two buildings.One building is the outpatient department, and it always leaves work on time. At this point, only the word "emergency" is still lit on the side of the first floor, and the word "heart" is missing when you look closely.The other building is the inpatient department she was looking for. Fortunately, there are not too many patients. It seems that there has never been a rule not to stay with you at night. She can still see a few scattered lights, like a lighthouse in the distant sea. Not giving up waiting for something.

The iron door was ajar, and she was full of thoughts about her younger brother, who was said to have been seriously injured, so she quickened her pace and walked inside.Unexpectedly, there was a young boy sitting strangely by the door, wearing all black and hiding in the shadow, his whole body was almost swallowed by the night.She didn't see it at all, and almost tripped over him.

"you……"

When the words came to his lips, the boy happened to look up at her.That gaze was colder than winter, and a heavy snow that had not yet fallen seemed to have formed solid ice in his eyes ahead of time.

It was a pair of eyes that she could never forget.

That was the first time Wu Yueyin and Chang Zheng met.

The author has something to say: The red dress pays tribute to the black and white long shot of a certain movie with a touch of red