Monsoon

"More than once I have imagined you sitting next to me, we chat tacitly, you say a word, I can understand the meaning. A bolt of lightning falls into the sea at night, thunder bursts, and the wind is rushing. I am about to Say something, just hold my hand, and the two of us will run to the inland together."

—— Ji Chi

"Brother Fang, Brother Fang?"

"Huh?" Fang Tang came back to his senses, Jiang Xu had been standing in front of him for a long time.

"This month's bill." Jiang Xu sorted out a stack of papers and handed them to Fang Tang.

Fang Tang took it and flipped through from the first page.

"During this period of time, the business was low. Li San, who was under the tank, was cut off when he was working last month. I paid a lot of money to go out. It's almost the same situation."

Fang Tang rubbed his temples: "I see, you can go back."

"it is good."

Jiang Xu opened the door and turned around: "Brother Fang, haven't you had a good rest recently?"

"Ah."

"You don't have to worry so much about the things below, just leave it to me and Photon."

Jiang Xu left, Fang Tang closed his eyes to rest his mind, subconsciously went to take out his clothes pocket, but only took out a cigarette case, shook it in his hand, a few shreds of tobacco fell out, and bounced off the sofa to the ground again.

I've smoked a pack from yesterday to today.

Fang Tang poked around with his hand, took the half of the cigarette butt that was cut off yesterday on the sofa in his hand, lit it and put it in his mouth.

As soon as the smoke enters the lungs, all the troubles seem to disappear, the smoke is lingering, Fang Tang leans on the sofa, and finds a sense of fulfillment in the fuzzy package.

Fang Tang changed from sitting to lying on his side, and the light bulb flickered, as if it was about to fail again, and the flickering made people's eyes hurt.In a flash, the soot fell on the sofa, and a small hole was burned in the sofa, exposing the sponge inside.

There are already many similar small holes on the second-hand sofa, and it can be used to sit on it with adhesive tape.

Suddenly, the phone vibrated on the window sill, and the ringtone was sharp and rapid.Fang Tang frowned, put out the cigarette, stood up and went to the windowsill to get the phone.

"Hey."

"Hey, isn't it loose?"

"you are?"

"I'm your Aunt Li. Your grandfather fell off the ladder and is still in the West District Hospital. Please ask your teacher for leave and come here quickly."

What? !Fang Tang's mind suddenly went blank, his heart seemed to be struck by lightning, he didn't care about thinking any more, he grabbed his wallet and rushed out the door: "I'll be right there!"

When Fang Tang hurried over, Aunt Li was pacing at the entrance of the inpatient department.

"Aunt Li." Fang Tang's heart was beating fast, and he couldn't stop panting.

"The operation is over, he is resting in the room." Aunt Li sighed, "Stand here and rest for a while and listen to me."

"Your grandpa asked me for dried shrimps some time ago and told me to make soup for you. I finally got some shrimp and I went to deliver them to your grandpa. When I went, I found him lying on the ground without making a sound."

"Fortunately, I found out in time, and your Uncle Li happened to be at home, otherwise I would not be able to do it as a woman."

"What a crime. There is only one old and one young in the family. The young ones go to school, and the old ones are left alone at home."

"You have to come back and watch often. You and Uncle Li are not at home all the time. If something happens to your grandfather, no one will know."

Fang Tang clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, but Aunt Li continued talking for a while.

"I went in to see my grandfather." Fang Tang said, interrupting Aunt Li.

"Go ahead, I'll be back first, call me if you have anything to do, it's my number that started calling you."

"Thank you."

Fang Tang stood at the door of the ward. There were five beds stuffed in the room, and each bed had a patient wrapped in a bandage and a plaster cast.Grandpa's bed was extra, and it was placed across the aisle in the ward. Passers-by had to bypass it carefully, and the location was very narrow.

In the ward, the middle-aged man by the window was about to be discharged from the hospital. He seemed more active than the others, and he kept repeating that the first thing he did after leaving the hospital was to go home and have a good sleep. Later they chatted and said Until the upwelling current brought all the fish in the sea to Beizhen.The foreign seafood trading company in the East District made a lot of money, and Fang Tang's ears kept ringing with their conversation, as well as the exaggerated laughter of the aunt in the middle bed.

Grandpa was sleeping, and the quilt was tightly covered, and his feet were bandaged and exposed.

Fang Tang didn't dare to go in, and grandpa didn't wake up after standing outside for a long time.

The doctors and nurses coming and going behind him looked at him with strange eyes, wondering if the shivering young man hiding outside the ward was not feeling well.

Fang Tang turned around and left the hospital and went home, took the money from the place where his grandfather usually put the money and went back to the hospital.

"Doctor, is it enough?" Fang Tang stood in front of the doctor's desk in the attending physician's office, arranged the money and put it on the desk, as well as a lot of bills and a few coins that had turned black. .

The doctor flipped through the medical records without raising his head: "This is definitely not enough. I still need to administer intravenous drips and prescribe medicines. The elderly are recovering slowly, and the hospital bed fee will continue to be paid."

"Where are your adults?" the doctor asked.

"Just me and my grandpa."

"relative?"

"No."

"It's a bit difficult." The doctor pondered for a while: "How about this, you borrow it from an acquaintance first, and we will treat your grandfather first, and we will settle the money after we have enough money to leave the hospital."

"Thank you doctor." Fang Tang lowered his head and bowed to the doctor.

"Grandpa, you're awake." Fang Tang went to the ward and saw his grandpa opened his eyes. He walked to the bed and stood there.

"You're here." Grandpa forced a smile.

"What's the matter with you?" Fang Tang frowned.

"It was the day when I found water in the house. When I saw it, the roof was indeed damaged by the rain. I wanted to go up to repair it, but I couldn't step on it when I climbed halfway."

Fang Tang took a chair and sat beside the hospital bed: "Does it hurt?"

Grandpa couldn't laugh anymore, and he didn't speak. Tears slowly appeared in the corners of his eyes: "I'm sorry, I always cause trouble for people when I get old."

Fang Tang's heart twitched violently.

"Yeah, you always give me trouble, I hate drinking shrimp soup!" He suddenly shouted.

Fang Tang stood up quickly, kicked the chair hard, and the chair was kicked to the side, and everyone in the ward looked at them.

He didn't stay long, left his grandfather in the ward, slammed the door and left.

Fang Tang moved home from the rental house, cooked at home and sent it to his grandfather, because there is still some food at home, and it is too expensive to buy food outside.Fang Tang wiped his grandfather's body and fed him. Grandpa's eyes were getting worse and worse. Whatever Fang Tang asked him to do, he would do it obediently, and he did not dare to speak against his grandson.

While Fang Tang was cooking, the hospital called and said that grandpa wanted to drink water, and he knocked over the boiling water cup and burned his hands.He put down what he was doing and hurried to the hospital. After confirming that there was nothing serious, he returned home. The residual temperature of the firewood had already made the rice sticky.

The hospital did not urge him to pay the money, but they handed over the bill to him on time every day. When the nurse handed him the bill, she pointed her nose at him, her eyes were full of contempt, and then she turned her head and left without talking nonsense to Fang Tang. .One morning a nurse pricked more than a dozen needles in Grandpa's hand but failed to pinch the blood vessel. Grandpa's hand was swollen and trembling with pain.Fang Tang pinched the nurse's wrist and threw her against the wall. The nurse was not afraid of him at all, and said confidently that if she couldn't pay the money, she shouldn't enjoy the treatment of paying the money.

Squatting in the small garden below the hospital, Fang Tang smoked the newly bought cigarettes one after another. There were already many cigarette butts under his feet, and Fang Tang couldn't hold the cigarettes with shaking hands.

He called Jiang Xu and Guangzi, and they gave Fang Tang all their savings, and they also collected some around, but it was still far from enough.The strong painkillers, salt water, and the stove to burn on the legs in the past few days, the rows of numbers on the daily bills have not decreased at all, but have a tendency to increase.Aunt Li also lent some to Fang Tang, she said that she didn't need to pay back, she had received a lot of benefits from Fang's family over the years, and the treatment was the most important.

But still not enough.

His stomach was rumbling from hunger, and he made a "cuckoo—" sound.

"I don't have any money anymore." Fang Tang squatted on the gravel road and muttered to himself.

"I'm really gone, I'm gone, why don't you look for me!" Fang Tang growled in pain.

Fang Tang never thought that a penny could kill a hero.

He is poor, so his grandfather's treatment depends on the face of others. He can't live in a good ward, so he can't sleep all night, and he can't eat nutritious meals. The delay is getting longer and longer. Grandpa is tortured every day.

Finally, the doctor was also afraid that he would not pay the money, so he deliberately came to the ward to urge him in front of his grandfather's bed. When the grandfather saw it, he pulled out the drip needle and said that he was dead and wanted to go home.

Everything is pushing him, and everyone is pushing him!He is just a small character, he can't stand in anyone's way, he just wants to protect Grandpa better, but he can't live with anything, even if he can't survive!

Fang Tang was on the verge of collapse, and slapped himself, forcing back tears.

"It will be fine."

Fang Tang looked at the cloudy sky and spoke lightly.

He spent the afternoon smoking a whole pack of cigarettes and thinking about a lot of things that he would never have thought about before.He picked up the cigarette butts one by one into the cigarette box, and then burned the cigarette box to ashes with the last spark of the cigarette box.

Finally, he chuckled and dialed the phone.

"Ji Chi, I'll give you an address, come here."

Ji Chi walked through another deep and narrow alley. It had rained and the road was covered with mud. After walking for a while, his trouser legs were already stained with mud.Looking up, the residents here also hang their underwear on the clothes rail they built outside. On the ground, someone’s old clothes were blown to the ground by the wind, and there were footprints and traces of bicycle wheels on the ground.

Passing by a row of bungalows on the side of the road, several old ladies were sitting on the side of the road playing cards. Men and women on the second floor were arguing. I didn't know what the content of the quarrel was, but I heard women screaming and men scolding.

While walking, I saw that several walking men disappeared, and they were pulled into the next house by a gorgeous woman.

Ji Chi didn't know that there was such a place in the West District, where garbage piled up in the corner and stinks, and a few dogs rummaged through the garbage to find food.

He glanced at the text message sent by Tang on the phone again, and followed the address to find the old-fashioned building where Fang Tang was located.

Going up the stairs, there is no light. He barely illuminates it with his mobile phone. The used condoms in the corridor are thrown in a corner.The narrow space was filled with an unpleasant smell, and Ji Chi had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Finally arrived at the fourth floor, the innermost old iron door had a piece of blessing pasted on it, the corners were tilted up, and it was on the verge of falling. Fang Tang lived inside that door.

Ji Chi approached and knocked three times.

After waiting for a few seconds, the door opened.

"Here we come." Fang Tang saw Ji Chi with a calm expression. He had been waiting for a long time.

"Yeah." Ji Chi walked in and closed the door behind him, "This place...is hard to find."

Fang Tang walked a few steps to the balcony and drew the curtains: "It's hard to find."

Fang Tang drew the curtains and turned his back to Ji Chi: "The lamp is broken and hasn't been repaired yet. The bed in the bedroom has only one board and no bed. I usually sleep on the sofa."

"You find me—" Ji Chi said.

"Are you going to do it on the bed or on the couch?"

"what?"

Fang Tang slowly turned around and faced Ji Chi: "□□, do you want to be on the bed or the sofa?"

Ji Chi saw Fang Tang walking towards him step by step, standing in front of him and looking straight into his eyes.

Fang Tang reached out to take off his jacket, unbuttoned his inner jacket from top to bottom, and quickly removed his jacket. The room was very dark, and Ji Chi saw a thin body.Fang Tang threw his jacket on the ground, and reached out to untie his belt.

"Fang Tang, wait." Ji Chi called out.

"I've taken a shower, Boss Ji don't mind." Fang Tang laughed, untied the belt, and took off the trousers to the end, leaving only the underwear.He grabbed Ji Chi's hand and was about to bring it to his lower body.

"Fang Tang."

Suddenly, Ji Chi shook off Fang Tang's hand vigorously and pushed him, Fang Tang fell down on the sofa unsteadily, his eyes were empty.

"I'll let you wait." Ji Chi's tone was cold.

Ji Chi took a few steps slowly, picked up Fang Tang's dropped clothes one by one, put them on the sofa, squatted down, pulled up Fang Tang's trousers, and put the clothes on for him, buttoning them from the bottom To the upper button to the top.Finally, the coat was put on him.

"Don't you like me?" After seeing Ji Chi's actions, Fang Tang spoke slowly.

Ji Chi threw away Fang Tang's unwashed clothes and sat next to Fang Tang: "Yes, I like you."

"I'm short of money." Fang Tang cut to the chase.

Ji Chi turned his head: "Why?"

"Don't ask." Fang Tang buckled the belt: "I'll sleep with you, you lend me the money."

Ji Chi stopped talking, and after a long time: "Is there any smoke?"

"No, I'm done."

"That's fine, I don't smoke either."

Fang Tang felt that Ji Chi was a little distracted, and what he said was incomprehensible.

Ji Chi frowned: "Fang Tang, I'm only telling you this time, you have to listen to it, and you have to think about it. If this step goes astray, there will be no turning back."

Fang Tang stared into Ji Chi's eyes: "You are wrong, I never thought of turning back."

Firm and sonorous.

Ji Chi nodded, took out the gun from the bag, and put a small note in Fang Tang's hand: "There must be enough money in it, you can buy some more clothes and change to a better place to live. "

"Fang Tang, I will be your man from now on, do you understand?"

"Heh, are these false names important?" Fang Tang squeezed the card in his hand.

"Important, if you want to be my partner, you can't go out to find the lady, and you must be the first to inform me if you have something to do, and I will give you enough money to use it. Similarly, if anyone asks you for a favor, I will immediately tear his mouth open." Ji Chi paused, "Do you think this false name is important?"

Unexpectedly, Fang Tang suddenly laughed.

"So you are still willing to keep me when you see me like this? Boss Ji, you have really good taste."

Ji Chi ignored Fang Tang and went straight to turn on the TV.

They sat side by side, Ji Chi held the remote control to switch channels, Fang Tang leaned on the sofa and put his feet on Ji Chi's lap.The person on the TV next to his ear seemed to be hypnotized, and his eyelids began to fight after a while, and finally fell down on the sofa.

The person next to him fell asleep, Ji Chi turned off the TV to the minimum, and tuned the channel for a while.

I haven't looked at the room carefully since I first came in. The lighting is poor, and the daytime seems like nighttime. The narrow space makes people feel depressed.The furniture looks second-hand or picked up, the trash cans are full of rubbish, and waste bottles and cans can be seen everywhere.

He moved Fang Tang's legs to the sofa next to him, stood up and turned off the TV.

Ji Chi dug out a basin from the bathroom, and a small piece of stained soap.He washed Fang Tang's clothes and hung them on the clothesline outside the balcony.Then I tied the bag in the trash can and tied the mouth of the bag, and took it out and threw it away when I was going to leave in a while.

After cleaning the room briefly, he came back and walked to Fang Tang.

Ji Chi slowly squatted down and approached Fang Tang to observe carefully.Fang Tang's breathing is very shallow, his forehead hair has grown so fast that it covers his eyes, his nose is sharp and straight, and his mouth is also thin. Outsiders really won't believe that he is the boss of the west district of Beizhen.

Ji Chi looked at it for a while, then took off his coat, put it on Fang Tang's body, leaned down and kissed Fang Tang's forehead, then quietly opened the door and left.

Ji Chi glanced back, and said to the sleeping man in a very small voice: "I'm going first, go to sleep, Fang Tang, you look too tired."

After the person left, Fang Tang slowly opened his eyes in the darkness.