windy city rainy season

When he first came to the United States, Tao Yu brought eight hundred dollars in cash and a dual-currency card from a domestic bank with him.After paying the tuition and miscellaneous fees for the first semester, he withdrew all the remaining one or two hundred dollars from the card, leaving only about ten yuan. He pressed the card at the bottom of the box and never took it out again.

After moving to the new home, the boxes have been kept in the closet. Due to the limited storage space, some clothes that are not worn in the season are stuffed in the boxes.Entering June, the weather gradually warmed up. On weekends, Tao Yu moved out all his summer clothes at home, revealing a wallet that was pressed at the bottom.

He looked at the wallet for a while, it was used in China, and Wei Wei had the same one.Opening the wallet, there are his domestic ID card, driver's license, proof card for vaccination before going abroad, and the bank card.Tao Yu logged into the online bank and wanted to check whether the money in the card was enough to pay the annual fee. When he saw the balance, he almost fell off his chair—there was an extra $[-] in the account out of thin air!

The money was transferred in in two installments, one of [-], both from domestic accounts.Tao Yu checked the time of the transfer. The first payment came in shortly after paying the tuition fee. At that time, the balance in the card was only [-] yuan; the other payment was at the end of last year. After posting the photo.

Apart from myself, the only one who knows the information of this card is my mother.

Holding the card in his hand, Tao Yu felt as if he had knocked over a five-flavored bottle.Before leaving the country, he left a letter to his parents, telling them that he was leaving.I wanted to report that I was safe when I got off the plane, but the phone number at the airport was just a display, and it didn't work.The many things he experienced later made him dare not relax or contact his family. He deluded himself into thinking that no one cared about his life and death. In fact, he was afraid that once he called his family, he would not be able to help but pour out all his grievances.People are always like this, when there is no one to talk to, they hold back a lot of energy, and they can survive no matter how hard or tired they are, but once they have an outlet to vent, they unconsciously pity themselves in the sympathy of others, as if no matter how much I can't bear any more pain.

The family transferred money to him, but they didn't say a word. Tao Yu couldn't figure out whether it was because his parents didn't abandon him, or if it meant "give you a sum of money, and you will fend for yourself in the future".For a while, he wanted to contact the bank to transfer the money from where it came from, and for a while, he wondered whether he should make it clear to his family first.Sitting absent-mindedly in front of the computer all afternoon, he opened Weibo and wanted to send a private message to his mother, but after writing and deleting a few sentences, he always felt that the words did not convey the meaning - he hadn't contacted for too long, and he didn't know what to say Where to start.

In the end, he only typed two lines: "Mom, I have a scholarship, and I'm doing well. You don't need to transfer money to me anymore. You and Dad take care of your health." This time he didn't hesitate, and clicked send.

Turning off the computer, I suddenly felt a sense of relief, as if the stone blocking my heart had been removed a little, and a ray of light came in.

He pulled two documents and fell on the sofa, hypnotized himself within half a minute after reading them.

While sleeping drowsily, he was awakened by the sound of ping-pong-pong in the corridor.Someone knocked on the door indiscriminately, he turned over to face the back of the sofa, and fell asleep again.

Later, Tao Yu was woken up by Chang Zheng, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the other person's face close at hand. The expression could not be described as sadness or indignation or anxiety, as if he had just won [-] million yuan and found out that the lottery ticket had been stolen.

"Are you okay?" Chang Zheng reached out and patted his face.

Tao Yu wondered how he could steal my lines?When I was wondering when I was a child, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a policeman standing in the corner of the living room? !

Fuck!What a policeman!He still has a gun on his waist!

Tao Yu sat up abruptly, thinking reflexively, where is my passport?my I-20?my student ID?I have completed all the formalities and have not worked illegally for a long time...

Seeing his reaction, Chang Zheng asked again worriedly: "Do you feel bad about anything?"

Tao Yu came back to his senses: "There is a policeman in our family, I don't feel good anywhere!"

After making sure he was fine, Chang Zheng got up and said to the police: "I think he's fine. You can get started, but it looks like he's not aware of what happened." )

Tao Yu stared nervously at the tall, burly white policeman with a beer belly, not knowing what he had committed, the damn Chang Zheng couldn't explain clearly!

The policeman was quite friendly. He introduced himself first, and then asked, "Did you hear gun shots this afternoon?"

Tao Yu: "..."

Fuck the shooting?Dead or not?Has the killer been caught?If I am not caught, I will be questioned by the police. Will I be retaliated afterwards?The most important thing is that I am a good citizen and I grew up in a country where private gun ownership is not allowed. I only heard of shooting in movies. Who the hell knows if the sound effects in gunfight movies are real? !

The police and Chang Zheng didn't know about Tao Yu's long story of mental activities, they only saw his blank expression as if he was distracted.Chang Zheng patted him on the shoulder and repeated: "Did you hear the gunshot?"

Tao Yu shook his head: "I was sleeping. Ididn't hear anything."

Mr. Police did not doubt it. He shook the man on the sofa awake when he saw Chang Zheng enter the room, so he changed the question: "Do you know a bullet penetrated your door? Actually two, the other one got stuck in the lock." Doors? Actually two, the other stuck in the lock.)

Tao Yu: "!!!"

He jumped off the sofa and ran to the door. The door was open, and there were policemen in the corridor questioning other residents.He saw that there was indeed a bullet hole in the door of his house. The speed of the bullet passing through the solid wooden door slowed down, leaving only a shallow hole in the opposite wall.The door lock was broken by another bullet. From the shooting point of view, it was not a stray bullet. It seemed to be sabotage. Both bullets were taken by the police.

Tao Yu stared blankly for a while, then turned to Chang Zheng, who was following behind, with a trembling voice: "Does he want to enter the house?"

Chang Zheng’s heart is like a roller coaster ride. From the fear when he received the call from the landlord, to the relief when he returned home and saw that the person was intact, now he looks at the damaged door lock and thinks with fear, I’m afraid I’ll fix it again. The door can be broken in, and Tao Yu sleeps alone at home...

He put his arms around the other person's shoulders to comfort him and said, "It's okay, the person has already caught it. The landlord will be here soon, and the insurance company will also be here. If you are afraid tonight, we will go to a hotel."

On a June day, Tao Yu's hands and feet were cold, and he asked belatedly, "The door downstairs has an electronic lock, how did people get in?"

"It's a resident of the building." Chang Zheng said, "It's the bachelor who lives in 5A. I heard that he just lost his job recently."

Unemployed man committing murder?Tao Yu recalled that he was indeed awakened in the middle of his sleep. He said to the police: "Idid hear abunch of noise that awoke meabit, but didn't realize those were gunshots. I thought kids were throwing bouncing balls or something. That's all I know." I thought it was a brat throwing a pinball.)

The police recorded it, and then asked them if they knew the person in 5A, and if they knew who he usually associates with.Both Tao Yu and Chang Zheng went out early, and when they met once or twice, they just nodded and said hello without speaking.

After the police left, Chang Zheng closed the door, turned around and hugged Tao Yu, took a deep breath by his side and said, "I'm going to be scared to death! When the landlord called, I was about to have an operation, so I threw it to Parker and ran back. "

It turned out that after someone in the building heard the gunshots and called the police, they called the person in charge of the owners' committee. The owners' committee was composed of residents in the building, and the person in charge had the emergency contact information of each household, so he contacted the landlord.The landlord usually lives in the suburbs, so he called Chang Zheng on the way.

Tao Yu's body froze, and he hadn't fully recovered from the shock. After knowing that he had almost brushed shoulders with death, he thought a lot, and what he thought most of was not Chang Zheng, but his parents whom he hadn't seen for a long time.Thinking that if he died like this, they would not know, they would get up and go to work as usual at dawn, and a few days later they would receive news from Chang Zheng or the embassy, ​​and then come to pack his belongings.

Tao Yu knew that he had overreacted, but he couldn't help thinking, what kind of mood would his parents have when they heard the news?He couldn't lie to himself that they really didn't care about his son's life, and when he thought of his mother, and the hundred thousand dollars in his account, he realized how homesick he was.

"I kind of want to go back to China." Tao Yu whispered to Chang Zheng, and after waiting for a while without hearing an answer, he couldn't help but said again: "It's not a little bit, but I really want..."

"Give me a week." Chang Zheng said, "I will apply for a visa."