Beat Generation

It was pitch black.

Not a single ray of light.

Zhuang Mei's feet were soaked in the greasy and smelly sewer dirt, trembling with every step she took, and it was not time for the city's sewage discharge at this point, if her footsteps continued to crawl like snails, then she might have to " "Lucky" caught up with a large pile of urban garbage flying towards her, stinging her fragile protective clothing.

Although Chen Ziwang said that the protective clothing made for her was rushed and might not be of good quality, it did support her through the sewers in a small half of the city, and it has not been damaged yet.

But throwing all kinds of weird things into the sewer, Zhuang Mei felt that this road was getting more and more difficult.

She calculated the time, and now this location should be very close to Wen's residence.

Loosening her helmet, she stood on a thick rail, intending to take a nap.

During this period of time, she has been posing as a courier, a gardener, and a college student who helps people walk their dogs, staying near Wen's house.

There was nothing strange about Wen's residence. She had seen Wen Xi's car drive in and out, and Wen Li's car, but... she had never seen Rong Lanzhi go out in a car.

She recorded the time and frequency of entry and exit of the main members of Wen's family, and finally she began to suspect that Rong Lanzhi had either been in the house all the time, or had gone on a long trip and never returned?Of these two possibilities, Zhuang Mei prefers the former one.At first she thought that Rong Lanzhi must have hidden her mother in some deep mountain, old forest, or mysterious villa. Later, she gradually began to speculate, what place is safer than Wen's house?Rong Lanzhi most likely hid her mother in Wen's house.

Chen Ziwang said that the basement of Wen's house was originally a civilian air-raid shelter, which was later used to stockpile military and ammunition. The Wen family's ancestors have been engaged in southern black and Taoist affairs for generations, and the house is heavily guarded.

And even this underground, Chen Ziwang doubted that it would be difficult to enter, and Zhuang Mei tried this time.

After taking a short rest, Zhuang Mei moved her hands and feet, and after making sure that she could use them flexibly, she walked forward again.

After walking for a while, she heard the sound of gushing spring water coming from nearby, and she followed the sound of the water. Compared with the smell in the sewer, she could clearly smell that the water in this passage was Clean, there are some petals and dead leaves flowing down the water, the more you walk forward, the more colorful petals will come continuously.

Relying on her first instinct, Zhuang Mei guessed that this waterway was built by Rong Lanzhi later. The marbles on both sides were neatly piled up, and she could see the reliefs on the vault when she looked up...Who would repair the sewer so beautifully? ?This waterway seems to lead to a gorgeous underground palace.

The water was getting deeper and deeper, so Zhuang Mei had no choice but to swim forward. After swimming for a while, she heard the sound of footsteps. Hearing a "plop", something was thrown into the water.

Holding her breath, she saw a black bag floating along the current. She held onto the bag. At this moment, the water flow became more urgent. If she kept pulling on the bag, she might be washed away together with the bag. , she cut open the bag with a knife, and saw a human hand slipping out of the bag, she was so frightened that she immediately let go of the bag, swam to the side, and grabbed the stone on the edge.

It wasn't until Zhuang Mei's eyes became dizzy from holding her breath that she let go of her hand and floated herself up.

When she returned to the surface of the water again, Zhuang Mei heard the fear that she could hear mixed with her breathing, she retched and swam aside, the person who had thrown the body just now had disappeared.

She couldn't hear anyone's voice nearby, she could only hear her own flustered heartbeat, finally, Zhuang Mei comforted herself, the hand just now should be a man's hand, her mother's hand is very delicate and white, definitely not like that.

After calming down, Zhuang Mei was sure that she had found the right way. She got out from the waterway, and as soon as she got ashore, she took off her stinky protective clothing and buried her in the bushes.

After wiping off the water on her face, Zhuang Mei with short black hair was just like a cat among the green leaves.

A pair of eyes watched everything in front of him defensively.

However, everything in front of her felt unbelievable. The familiar garden layout, the familiar bronze lamps, and even the five-color curtains embroidered with pictures of ladies floating in the gazebo not far away were all... all of them were from the past. The look of the garden.

Zhuang Mei raised her head, the garden was the bottom floor, and the top was an upside-down glass cover. She saw a maid walking across the glass with bare feet.

At the same time, she also smelled a strong scent of traditional Chinese medicine coming from all directions. She was about to emerge from the bushes when she saw a maid walking from the other side of the garden with a white cat in her arms. Another maid picked up a few peonies and walked over there.

"I heard that she opened her eyes at dawn in the morning, and when she saw our wife, she fainted again."

The maid holding the cat whispered.

The maid who was going to arrange flowers sighed, "I knew... Hey, she tried to die not once or twice, I have seen it many times, which one succeeded? Every time she will make trouble, and every time she can't die , You said that she is old, our wife is not mean to her, we will use everything that is good for her, you see, she beats our wife too much. Once, I saw her go crazy and dumped us The wife has seven or eight mouths, which makes us feel distressed, and our wife doesn't care about her, she just coaxes her. You said she is already old, why is she still so ignorant of current affairs. "

Hearing this, Zhuang Mei gritted her teeth. She clenched a small tree and reluctantly listened.

"Who says no? If she wasn't good-looking, our wife wouldn't be so obsessed with her. Do you think she is an old goblin? How come she looks the same as when I first saw her Woolen cloth."

"I think it's a demon. Otherwise, why is she so fond of being a demon?... If she can live for 500 years, then our wife and we will be tortured for another 500 years. Hey, there is no time to stop, But our wife can't live without her."

The two maids laughed softly, talked for a while, and then went to do their own things.

Zhuang Mei followed the maid holding the white cat and walked through the garden without seeing the camera. After walking from the basement floor to the first floor, she found that there was no one on the first floor, and everything was quiet. She took out a stone and threw it on the ground to check, but there was not even a bodyguard...

She followed the direction in which the maid disappeared, but got lost in the corridor, and finally walked out of the maze-like house along the stairs in such a daze. After she came out, she realized that she didn't know Wen It is not the main house of the house, but the side house.

Just waiting in the dark until it was dark and the lights of the whole side house were turned on, Zhuang Mei went in again.

This is the second time she went in, and she saw a row of colorful birds at a glance. Those birds also looked at her with strange and innocent eyes. They all jumped to the edge of the birdcage. Zhuang Mei was startled, and she stuck to the bottom of the wall. He didn't dare to move, for fear that the birds would call out together, which would immediately expose him.

She waited for a while, but the bird in the cage just looked at her and didn't make a sound, so she breathed a sigh of relief and moved forward step by step along the wall, changing scenes step by step, and she could see exquisite sculptures everywhere. The carefully crafted birdcages, some are golden, some are silver...all of them are like works of art, and the birds are all full of energy, combing their feathers or fluttering their golden wings in the cages. It dazzled people, thinking that they had just broken into the fairy palace where some divine bird was gathering.

Zhuang Mei really felt that she was called by God. The birds didn't cry when they saw her. Just when she was complacent, she heard Wen Xi's voice from far away, and she hurriedly found a place to hide.

About 10 minutes later, Wen Xi's voice came from far to near. Besides her, Zhuang Mei also saw Wen Li holding Wen Xi's hand with a mournful face.

"Sister, it's all my fault. I shouldn't have been fooled by that pretty auntie and gave her a knife. I really believed her and thought she was going to use it to cut fruit, who knew she would be crazy enough to cut herself What about my heart. Woooooo... Mom will hate me to death..."

"Don't cry. Whether you can survive depends on whether the doctor's operation is successful tonight. Stop arguing, and let mom hear you later, and I will operate on you again." Wen Xi hugged Wen Li, and the two sisters sat On the sofa, Wen Xi was obviously absent-minded, her back was facing Zhuang Mei, and Zhuang Mei couldn't see the expression on her face at this time, but Wen Li's little face wrinkled from crying was already indistinguishable from mourning.

Zhuang Mei guessed that the place where the operation was performed should be at the place where the two sisters came over just now. If she had to go around, she would see her mother.

At this time, a bodyguard came over and said something in Wen Xi's ear, and Wen Xi immediately stood up and walked away.

Only Wen Li was left with tears in her face, Zhuang Mei breathed a sigh of relief, walked around and walked towards the place they came from, and soon saw the prison cell.

She looked in through the gap in the door panel, the doctor was operating on the woman on the operating table, and Rong Lanzhi was standing by the operating table.

Time passed by like this, Zhuang Mei just hid behind the small rockery near the door of the cell, and when the operation was over, the doctors and nurses all came out from inside, Rong Lanzhi held the doctor's hand, took off the mask, He said to the doctor with joy on his face, "Thank you, you have worked hard."

Zhuang Mei breathed a sigh of relief, she clenched her lower lip, and heard the doctor say: "It should. It should. Pay attention to rest after the operation, and don't let her be stimulated again."

At this moment, the doctor took off his mask and hat, and Zhuang Mei recognized it at a glance—the doctor in front of him was Zhou Haisheng, who had been persecuted by Wen Xi before and had never heard from her.

"Mrs. Wen is polite, as it should be." Zhou Haisheng smiled and led the nurse away. Zhuang Mei felt strange with that smile. It seemed that Zhou Haisheng had now become a member of Wen's family.

After the doctors and nurses left, Rong Lanzhi closed the door.

Zhuang Mei just squatted in the rockery. Fortunately, there was no distinction between day and night in the depths of the cell. She closed her eyes and rested for a while, and finally waited until Rong Lanzhi came out of the cell.

As soon as Rong Lanzhi left, Zhuang Mei couldn't wait to enter the cell. She locked the door and drew the layered curtains, so that even if someone was patrolling outside, they would not be able to see the situation inside from the window on the door. It seems that Rong Lanzhi has expelled all the bodyguards outside, and there are not many people in this empty cage.

... With her mother close at hand, Zhuang Mei felt both excited and unfamiliar, and her eyes soon turned red.

The woman with black hair long to her waist in front of her had the same face, same hands, and same slender and charming figure as her mother, but without a trace of her mother's inherent vitality and spirit.

She was dying, without any brilliance, as if she had been dead for a long time, leaving only this overly gorgeous skin.

"Mom." Zhuang Mei knelt by the bed and held her mother's hand, "Mom, it's me. Mom, I'll come and see you."

Zhuang Mei heard Zhou Haisheng say that she would definitely wake up within two hours, and now it's more than two hours.

"Mom, my daughter came to see you. Mom, how have you been in the past five years? My daughter...has a good life and learned a lot. I have met many grassroots people and lived a grassroots life for a long time. Although it is hard point, but it's fun.... and been to a lot of places... Mom, I miss you, open your eyes and look at me again. You won't be disappointed, I'm braver than ever, you know, I was in Yulong Snow Mountain, playing hang gliding, and I came down after flying like this..."

Zhuang Mei choked with trembling lips and said, "Mom, can you wake up and take a look at me?"

She stretched out her hand to caress her mother's face, sighing as she did when she was a child, "Mom, I don't look like you at all, you are so soft and beautiful, like a hibiscus covered with morning dew, my brother looks like you, You always say that he is not good at boys and girls, so I look like dad, and girls look like boys, okay?...Mom, do you still miss dad? If you miss him, wake up and I will take you to find him. Okay? Woolen cloth?"

She called out to her mother and fed her all the air, but no one responded to her. Zhuang Mei couldn't go on talking anymore. She lay on her mother's shoulder and began to cry softly, "Mom, don't leave me, don't leave me... I I miss you so much, I miss you so much... In the past five years, whenever I feel scared, I will dream that our car slipped down that night, dreaming that you were lying in a pool of blood and stretching out your hand to me, and you asked me to save you. You, have you come to my dream for the past five years, want me to save you... I am here, mother, I am here... I am right here, I am the daughter of you and your father, my surname is Bo , I will not admit defeat."

Zhuang Mei kissed her mother's cheek... Slowly, Zheng Lianhe, who seemed to be still like a picture of a beauty, opened her eyes.

She looked at Zhuang Mei weakly, Zhuang Mei was filled with grief and joy, she was about to speak, Zheng Lianhe opened her mouth and shouted: "Bo Zhengtao, don't leave me alone, take me away...you take me away, Bo ..."

"Mother……"

"Bo, I miss you so much, do you miss me?" Zheng Lianhe opened his eyes wide, staring at Zhuang Mei as if confirming, "Bo, you are still a boy, and the underworld loves you, so what should you do now?" He is a bad old man, how come... this... makes me like..."

Zhuang Mei held Zheng Lianhe's hand that was reaching out to caress her cheek, and she couldn't restrain herself from crying: "It's me, it's me...Ah...Ahe, I'll take you away, I'll take you away. I Now... take you away."

Zheng Lianhe smiled.

Zhuang Mei has not seen such a girly smile on her mother's face for five years. When her father was still alive, her mother would often stand under the peach blossom tree and say goodbye to her and her younger brother with a smile, telling them to go to school. Be careful.

Zhuang Mei imitated her father and hugged her mother. Zheng Lianhe slightly pushed her away and gently stroked her eyebrows, "Bo, I love you. You are no longer a poor official. Let's go wandering around the world, shall we?"

"it is good."

Zhuang Mei nodded with sobs, and Zheng Lianhe smiled again, like a crabapple tree in full bloom.

"You listen to me, you must be right. If you continue to act, many people will be jealous of you and want to get rid of you."

"Ah."

Zhuang Mei nodded again. She held her mother in her arms and listened to what her mother wanted to say to her father.

"We have to leave now, it's too hasty. I still have a lot of luggage to pack, and we have to take our little Meier and Xiao Huier...Bo, I feel so tired..."

Zheng Lianhe's voice became thinner and thinner. After confirming that her heartbeat and blood pressure were normal, Zhuang Mei coaxed: "Ahe, take a nap first, and when you're full, we'll go... wandering around the world. Okay."

"Okay, okay, okay, don't go, I'm afraid I won't be able to find you again when I wake up."

"Okay... I won't go, you just finished the operation, you need to rest, go to sleep, go to sleep... Ahe."