born to ashes

On the seashore in the west of Haicheng, there is a small white western-style building, which occupies a yard larger than the surrounding single-family villas. It is the private hospital that Yan Jia contacted.Regardless of the level of medical treatment, but in terms of price, it is definitely the leading hospital in Haicheng.

It's also a coincidence that the big boss of this hospital is Yan Jia's senior in college. The young man is also of high level, and he took over the hospital's business from his family at a young age. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Yan Jia specially made an appointment On weekends, let Cheng Jiezhi check on her brother's identity.

While Josh was driving, Cheng Jiezhi reluctantly leaned on the back of the seat and closed his eyes, like a poor hostage tied up by a seat belt.The west side of the city is relatively open. I don’t want to think about the bustling and busy urban villages in the city. After driving for a long time, I can’t meet a single person. Occasionally, when I encounter a car, it’s like the notes of slow music. The staff on the staff moved half-deadly.

While parking the car inside the hospital, Josh inadvertently glanced out of the yard, as if someone just walked past the fence wall that was densely covered by lush trees.Before he had time to take a second look, Yan Jia knocked on the car window.

Cheng Jiezhi lazily opened his eyelids from the state of "playing dead", and grinned at Yan Jia, "Jia Jia."

Josh originally planned to use violent means to force Cheng Jiezhi to stay in the hospital, but he didn't expect Cheng Jiezhi to resist at all. After a series of examinations, when Yan Jia was discussing the arrangement of a single ward, Cheng Jiezhi did not raise any objections until he was admitted to the ward , Josh was wary of him making any other small calculations.

He returned to the rented house in the village in the city, and simply packed up his things. Only the stove was left in the whole house, and the traces of their life remained.Because of the two of them, neither of them regarded this place as a long-term place.It's like a bridge hole where homeless people sleep temporarily for a night. With a roll of newspapers, no one will know that there was a homeless person here, except for the little wild cat next to it.

The little girl Sun Ruoshui was quite reluctant when she saw her off. She blinked her big eyes twice and was about to shed tears. Josh tapped her forehead, "Why are you crying, you are so reluctant to bear me?"

Sun Ruoshui handed him a pack of chocolates with a sob, and ran out of the yard.

Chocolate is the little girl's favorite Raphael white ball, what a kid, Josh thought.

When people are young, they all have sweet and soft dreams.

Josh lifted the drooping mosquito net. Cheng Jiezhi has changed a lot this time when he came back.Compared to the bookish young man they met six years ago, now this young man has been slowly pinched into such a frail young man by the world's monstrous malice.He had worked hard to climb out of the abyss, and his planned growth should be outside the abyss, but in the end, he fell into a deeper darkness.

So Josh asked him to ask himself, is the power of darkness really that powerful.

So many people did not believe it one after another. One after another, they picked up the light on the side, and then collapsed into a deeper abyss.You asked him if he dared to climb outside?How dare you?

Cheng Jiezhi has a scarred physique, a small scrape can easily leave marks for several years. Josh used to stare at his arms and count the darkened pinholes, so dizzy that he didn't know how many there were.Each of them is the history and testimony of his poisoning.

Wen Yu gave him the first injection with a grim smile.

For the second injection, Wen Yu rubbed his hair and said, "Solve it."

The third stitch, the fourth stitch, the fifth stitch...

From what stitch?He began to beg Wen Yu, asking him to do anything in order to go crazy for another injection.He used to think that he was not an ordinary person, that he was omnipotent, but in the end, in front of those demons in the needle, he realized that he was completely an ordinary person, without willpower, and could not think about everything in the movie. Gritting his teeth like that.He can be controlled so easily, and because of this, he willingly becomes Wen Yu's plaything.

Cheng Jiezhi woke up dripping with sweat. Looking at the white ceiling, his eyes went dark for a moment. Then he realized that this was a hospital, and his heartbeat slowly calmed down.Wen Yu’s house had a white ceiling, where he howled hoarsely for countless days and nights, and the house where he was rehabilitated later had a white ceiling, where he also spent half a year insane.Then for the rest of the days, I still have to accept another form of torture under the white ceiling.

White ceiling.

He didn't understand the professional terms the doctors said, such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and targeted therapy, which covered several pages, and in the end he didn't even know the word "treatment".He closed his eyes, what is a patient worrying about? Sleeping peacefully is the most professional quality a patient should have.

Cheng Jiezhi was tortured by the drugs day by day, and his energy was getting worse day by day. He closed his eyes and thought about the pain everywhere. Sure enough, pain is something that you can't get used to.

He insisted on letting Josh push the wheelchair to take him out for a few laps every day, looking at the sea in the distance, looking at the fountain at the door that cost a lot of money, in order to prevent traces of him being alive, he was completely imprisoned in the small single ward inside.

Josh watched Cheng Jiezhi's little anger go away little by little day by day, and couldn't stop his heartbeat.In the past, he was afraid of death, wanted to die, and wanted to get some kind of disease, but now, the not-so-strong desire to survive in Josh's heart unexpectedly burned up.The pain of the passing of life cannot be more painful.

Sometimes you want to live, sometimes you want to die, this is life.

Cheng Jiezhi was not very lively when he was walking on the winding gravel path in the hospital. Most of them still had their eyelids drooped, and they simply closed their eyes if they were alive, as if they just wanted to touch the smell of the newly mowed lawn with their skin.

More than once, Josh noticed a figure standing in the distance, neither approaching nor leaving, but just appeared outside the hospital fence on time when they went out for a walk in the afternoon, with the vast ocean behind them.

Cheng Jiezhi didn't have the energy to look around. The man stood there as if he was in the morning and evening. For so long, he didn't even move an inch closer. Once, when Josh looked out the window of the ward, the man was still standing there. , watching from afar.

When pushing Cheng Jiezhi for a walk, Josh often talked about the past as if he had nothing to say.

"Do you still remember Zheng Fei?" Josh looked around while talking, miraculously, he didn't see that person.

"Zheng Fei?" Cheng Jiezhi said lazily, "The one who called me 'Brother Cheng'?"

"Yes, it's just him. Although he didn't say anything, I think he probably knows that I've connected with you a long time ago. He helped Brother Cheng and Wen Yu with many things, intentionally or unintentionally." Josh explain.

Cheng Jiezhi let out a gurgling sound from his throat, and said with a stretched tone, "I knew this kid was up to something big."

"Sure, Da Fei dares to fight. At the beginning, he rushed to the forefront of everything. It's no wonder that Brother Cheng values ​​him now. I remember once there was a conflict with the Art and Sports Center. He didn't wait to call someone. I rushed up stupidly, I was tall against five or six people with guns and clubs, my mother also had a little bit of back that day, and I happened to be licking skewers nearby, and I went up to block him. Kidneys," Josh said here, always making fun of himself heartlessly, "or I would have to lose my job early."

Cheng Jiezhi ignored him.

Josh didn't get the desired effect, so he curled his lips and continued: "Later, I thought, I was just like Biao, I rushed up and blocked it with my arms and legs, what can I do to block it, I have to send my old waist up."

He babbled on, but Cheng Jiezhi didn't move for most of the day, Josh looked down, Cheng Jiezhi was turning his head to look outside the fence, his eyes were wide open, he looked along, there was no one there, but indeed It was undoubtedly where the man stood before.

"It's enough to block it with your arms, and it's enough to pierce through it." Cheng Jiezhi muttered softly.

Josh came to his senses and scolded himself for his broken mouth, which pot should not be lifted and which pot should be opened——Didn't that kid from the Lu family block Cheng Jiezhi's knife with his arm back then?

"Let's go back today, I think it's getting cold." Josh turned the wheelchair and walked back.

Cheng Jiezhi didn't say anything, and he didn't stare at the empty space again.

It's true that Zheng Fei vaguely guessed something, the two of them were able to hide in Haicheng for such a long time without being found by Wen Yu, it was mostly due to Zheng Fei.Brother Cheng's attitude towards Wen Yu is actually very ambiguous. On the one hand, he doesn't like Wen Yu, and wants to stop him no matter what he does. On the other hand, there is really nothing involved in this matter. Necessary, Cheng Ge advocates a wait-and-see attitude.

Zheng Fei is actually very smart, but Brother Cheng doesn't like smart people, he understands, so he always does not make mistakes in big things in front of Brother Cheng, pretends to be confused when it comes to small things, sometimes he is used to being reckless and pretending to be reckless, but he doesn't know if it is true or not .

This time I stumbled over Wen Yu in Zhucheng. In fact, he could push it to be reckless. Brother Cheng didn't say anything. Regardless of the overall situation, he was happy that Wen Yu suffered a loss. As for the relationship with Cheng Jiezhi, I didn't expect that Zheng Fei did it on purpose.

The reactions of Wen Yu and the Lu family confirmed Zheng Fei's guess. Without much hesitation, he called Wei Linze and told his rough guess, mainly to reassure him.

Wei Linze pondered for a while on the other end of the phone, and asked, "Do you know where they might end up?"

"I can't tell..." Zheng Fei said, "However, there is one thing I know. Few people know about it. I am one of them. The youngest daughter of the Haicheng Yan family has a little friendship with Cheng Jiezhi. The Zheng family boy also owes Cheng Jieyi a favor, and those key people don't know about these things, so if they find a place to stay, they may..."

The next morning, when he had just finished radiotherapy and was still dazed, Cheng Jiezhi suddenly said, "Can you push me down for a walk now?"

"Now?"

"Now."

Cheng Jiezhi was obviously getting weaker and weaker, his voice didn't even pass through his vocal cords, and he was swaying. Josh pushed him to follow the original route. As soon as he reached the edge of the fountain, Cheng Jiezhi held down the wheel, his knuckles were clearly defined, and he clasped it firmly. He said, "Go to the gate."

"Huh?" After Josh expressed his doubts, Cheng Jiezhi didn't speak again, and went to look at him again. He had adjusted to the most comfortable posture and half closed his eyes.

The man was still standing outside the fence, and Josh pushed the wheelchair and watched from afar at the gate of the courtyard, not knowing whether to avoid him or walk over.