Roommates are not straight

Who can call so late?Cai Yang squinted his eyes and took out his mobile phone and looked at the caller ID. It was Li Libang.Suddenly there was an ominous premonition in his heart, and most of his spirits were restored.

"Hello? Libang?" Cai Yang sat up from the bed to answer the phone. Gu Wenyu, who was lying beside him, was also woken up, and quietly put a pajamas on him behind him.

There was no response from the other side of the microphone for a long time. Cai Yang fed him several times, and even took the phone away from his ear to look at the screen to confirm that the signal connection was normal. Then he said to the microphone again: "Hello? Is that Li Libang? Talk!"

Finally, a heavy, nasal sigh came from the phone: "Dish..."

As soon as Cai Yang heard Li Libang's voice, he felt something was wrong, and said anxiously: "Libang, what's wrong?"

"Dead vegetables..." Li Libang sniffled at the other end, his voice was a little hoarse, "My dad... my dad just... left."

When Cai Yang heard the bang in his head, he was a little frightened.The news was so sudden that he even wondered if he had misunderstood it. What does "gone" mean?died?But it was less than a year since the last time I saw Li Libang's father. At that time, he was still in good condition. How could it be... He didn't know what to say for a while, he just grabbed his phone in a daze, and listened silently in the dark. Li Libang sobbed slightly from thousands of miles away.

"I... I read my dad's... I just know! I just know... Cai... I'm a fucking bastard! I deserve to die! Why don't I fucking die..." Li Libang's voice was intermittent, listening It's not very real, but it can be heard that his mood is very unstable now, and he has reached the verge of collapse.

Cai Yang slowly took a breath to calm himself down before asking: "Libang, is there anyone at your house? Are you alone by your father's side now?"

However, Li Libang didn't seem to hear what Cai Yang said, and kept muttering "damn" and "asshole" to himself indiscriminately. He was so angry that he cursed: "Fuck me, Li Libang! Are you a fucking man! Can you stop crying?! Can you still speak human words!"

Cai Yang's roar was so loud that even Cai Yang's parents' room was disturbed.As if shaken by Cai Yang's Lion's Roar, the other end of the phone finally quieted down and returned to the original silence, only the faint sound of breathing could be heard.Cai Yang quickly seized this opportunity and asked again: "Is there anyone at home?"

"No, my father is the only child. My grandparents passed away two years ago. My mother divorced my father when I was two years old and immigrated to a foreign country. I basically have no contact with my relatives there."

Cai Yang has known Li Libang for many years, and this is the first time he has heard about his family matters. He suddenly felt very uncomfortable, and felt bad for Li Libang. Send me the address on my cell phone." Then, before Li Libang could speak, he pressed his cell phone and got up to get dressed.

"Where are you going?" Gu Wenyu stopped Cai Yang.

"Libang's father passed away. There is no one in his family. I have to go and see him." Cai Yang said in a muffled voice while trying to stuff his head into the jumper.

"I mean where is his home, which city."

"Eh..." Cai Yang thought for a long time before he said something uncertain.

Gu Wenyu: "..."

At this time, Cai Yang's cell phone rang twice again, it was a text message from Li Libang.Cai Yang glanced at the phone and said, "Well, that's right, it's there."

Gu Wenyu immediately took a tablet computer to check the flight online, and then showed the results to Cai Yang: the latest flight to Li Libang was only available at [-]:[-] in the morning, and now it is only after [-]:[-] in the morning.In other words, if Cai Yang rushes out now, he will have to sit at the airport for three or four hours foolishly before he can get to the plane.

Cai Yang: "..."

Gu Wenyu took off Cai Yanghu's half-dressed sweater, put him back on the bed and lay down, and said calmly, "Take another two hours of sleep and leave for the airport at six o'clock."

Cai Yang was thinking about Li Libang in his heart, he tossed and turned on the bed and couldn't fall asleep at all, finally stayed up until after five o'clock, he couldn't bear it any longer, so he simply got up and started to wash and tidy up.When brushing his teeth in front of the mirror, Gu Wenyu stood behind him and looked at him, probably because he didn't sleep well, and his complexion was a bit bad.Cai Yang rinsed his mouth and spit out the toothbrush water, looked back at him, and asked, "Huh? What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Gu Wenyu looked away and handed Cai Yang a towel, "Should I say hello to my uncle and aunt?"

"It's Mom and Dad!" Cai Yang corrected, then bent down and began to wash his face.

The two of them got up and had a toss, which finally woke up the two elders.Cai Yang's mother came out of the bedroom with sleepy eyes and asked what was going on, and Cai Yang briefly explained the whole story.After hearing this, Cai Yang's mother was stunned for a while, then sighed heavily and said, "That kid Libang is also quite pitiful, he is alone and lonely, you can go and accompany him."

Cai Yang and Gu Wenyu didn’t have time to unpack the luggage they brought back, and this time they had to take it away intact. Cai Yang’s mother and Cai Yang’s father were a little reluctant when they stood at the door to see them off, but they couldn’t say anything. Yang's mother just asked Gu Wenyu: "Is Xiaoyu going with our Yang Yang?"

"Well, I know some people over there, maybe they can help." Gu Wenyu replied.

"Then I'll trouble you, Cai Yang is really lucky to have a friend like you."

Cai Yang saw that the time was almost up, he pulled up his suitcase and was about to leave, but before he left, he couldn't help but looked back at his mother and father, and for the first time told him: "Mom and Dad, after I leave, you will take care."

Gu Wenyu was still driving on the way to the airport.It snowed all night on New Year's Eve, the days in the north were short, and it was not bright until six o'clock, so I needed to drive with headlights.The pale beam of light swept across the icy and snowy road, looking extremely gloomy in the foggy darkness.After Cai Yang got in the car, he leaned back in the chair and fell asleep after sending two messages to Li Libang.

Gu Wenyu's nerves tensed up.Although there was snow on the side of the road when I was driving before, it was different from this time. Because it was the New Year's Eve, the sanitation workers had not had time to clean the road. The car was driving directly in the snow, and the tires often slipped.And Cai Yang kept chatting with him on the expressway when he came here, which distracted him, but this time the surrounding was very quiet, and he couldn't hear anything except the sound of the engine.Gu Wenyu watched Cai Yang a few times, seeing that he was soundly asleep and couldn't bear to disturb him, so he insisted on finishing the whole drive.But the deep-seated fear began to surround him again, making him feel very uncomfortable. The cold sweat soon soaked his back, and the car drove slower and slower.

It was already 07:30 when we arrived at the airport. When Cai Yang woke up, his first reaction was to yell: "I'll wipe Gu Wenyu, why have you been driving for so long! You're going to miss the plane!" Then he rushed out of the car to get a boarding pass .

Gu Wenyu sat in the driver's seat, closed his eyes and rested for a while, then quietly went to store the car, and dragged his luggage to find Cai Yang.

After going through the security check and boarding the plane, Cai Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief, only then did he notice that Gu Wenyu looked uneasy, and suddenly remembered that he seemed afraid of driving in snowy weather.But I thought that I didn't see any adverse reactions from him when I was driving before, so there shouldn't be any major problems.And it would be a bit of an afterthought to mention this matter at this time, but it was embarrassing, so I didn't say anything.

After the plane took off, Gu Wenyu slept by the window facing Cai Yang.After Cai Yang waited for the flight attendant to deliver the meal, he quietly reached out to help his head, let him sleep on his shoulder, and then lightly kissed him on the cheek when no one was looking.

Gu Wenyu's slightly frowning brows finally relaxed.

What Li Libang gave Cai Yang was the address of a hospital. When the two of them arrived, Li Libang's father had already been pushed into the mortuary, and Li Libang was still squatting at the door of the mortuary, holding a black leather notebook in his arms in a daze.It was only a day since I saw him, and he seemed to be a completely different person, with a gray and haggard complexion. When he raised his head to look at Cai Yang, his eyes were red and swollen, and his expression was dazed. He looked like a homeless stray dog.

Cai Yang walked over and patted his head, sat down beside him, not knowing how to comfort him, and finally took out a sealed fresh-keeping lunch box from his backpack and said: "This is the stewed tofu made by our mother. You put a lot of peppers in."

Li Libang took the fresh-keeping box without making a sound, stared at it for a moment, then suddenly threw his arms around Cai Yang, lay on his shoulder and cried loudly.Cai Yang silently patted his back, feeling very uncomfortable.Gu Wenyu stood next to them for a while and then left, dragging his suitcase to find a hotel nearby.

After Li Libang cried enough, Cai Yang carefully asked: "What happened to uncle? Wasn't he fine when he came to see you last time?"

"He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer at that time, and it was still at an advanced stage." Li Libang's voice was so hoarse that he didn't look like him at all, his breath hissed like a broken bellows. "That's why you're so anxious to find me back..."

"Then why...how so fast..."

Like a wounded beast, Li Libang buried his head down and whimpered in pain: "I... I'm a fucking bastard... bastard!! Since he came to see me last time, I haven't answered the call... Every time I see his call, I press it. This time I was contacted by the hospital, so I didn’t know... When I came here... People... People are already dying..."

Cai Yang choked for breath, and finally understood why Li Libang was in such pain.The last time I talked to my father was still arguing. The father and son broke up unhappy.However, they had the opportunity to meet each other during the period, but because of each other's stubbornness, they left regrets that could never be made up.No one can stand this.

"Let's go, don't squat here, go eat something first." Cai Yang patted Li Libang comfortingly, and pulled him up, only then did he realize that Gu Wenyu was gone, and was about to take out his mobile phone to call him At that time, I saw a text message from him, informing me that the hotel had been booked, and sent the hotel address.

After saying hello to the people in the hospital, after completing the relevant procedures and paying the fee, Cai Yang dragged Li Libang, who looked like a walking dead, out and went straight to the hotel.Gu Wenyu has already booked a table in the hotel restaurant tacitly, and is waiting for them.After the food was served, Li Libang couldn't eat it in one bite, but kept pouring himself wine.Cai Yang noticed the black leather notebook in his hand, and asked what it was. Li Libang then put down the wine bottle he had been holding around, and rubbed his head on the notebook for a long time, before saying in a hoarse voice: "This is the old man... ...It's my dad's diary." After he finished speaking, he raised his head, his eyes turned red like rabbits again, "It's strange, isn't it, that a local nouveau riche who opened a fake mobile phone factory can also keep a diary? Haha..."

Li Libang was laughing, but Cai Yang preferred him to cry like just now.

"Libang, don't be like this, uncle will feel uncomfortable when he sees you in the spirit of heaven."

Li Libang rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, calmed down, and then said slowly: "When I came, he was unconscious. The doctor said that he couldn't eat for nearly a month. His esophagus was ulcerated and his stomach was shrunk. I just want to take a look at me." He paused here, his eyes were full of pain and regret, and then said: "His secretary gave me this notebook and said that if he couldn't wait for me, he would Let me read it myself, it is a diary he kept when he was young. I read it when I was watching by his bedside last night..."

Li Libang's father was a college student majoring in communication technology. College students in that era were very valuable. After graduation, he was assigned to a telecommunications company and had a good job. At the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, more and more people chose to go to sea. For the dream of the year, Li's father also quit his stable job and started a business with a few like-minded friends.Because of this, Li Libang's mother had conflicts with Li's father, coupled with the difficulties and wanderings in the early days of entrepreneurship, Li's mother resolutely chose to leave their father and son and marry a Canadian Chinese.

Father Li and his friends started out as outsourced parts for foreign mobile phones, but as the production line matured, they came up with the idea of ​​building their own brand.It was true that there were good times at first, and the company gradually gained scale. However, as foreign companies with deep pockets entered the inland market one after another, no matter in terms of capital or technology, the domestic small mobile phone factories were completely incomparable with those foreign brands, and finally they had nowhere to go. , Several friends of Li’s father chose to imitate the big mobile phone brands and started to make knockoffs. NQKIA, SAMSUNQ, and MOTC have all come out, and they have made a lot of money because of it.Only Father Li, struggling to guard his little unknown mobile phone factory, lost almost everything.

"Later, around [-], the state issued a policy requiring all mobile phone factories to have a production license. At that time, my father's factory was not qualified enough to pass the approval. In addition, I was going to high school that year, and my family Unable to bear the toss, my dad finally gave up and started making counterfeit mobile phones."

Li Libang told Cai Yang and Gu Wenyu what he saw in the diary, and then the three fell silent.

Cai Yang and Li Libang's father only met once, and at that time he didn't think he was the kind of "upstart" that Li Libang said, and he was a very gentle and refined person.And at that time, I also talked with Cai Yang about many advanced technical issues in the current communication and computer fields, and had many unique insights of my own.Cai Yang was still surprised at that time, but thinking about it now, I am afraid that they are really newborn calves in front of Li's father, and they don't know what a tiger looks like.

"This diary was only recorded in [-], and there was no more after that. It was not until he knew he was ill that he continued to write two pages. Do you know what he said at the end?" Li Libang raised his head, desperately holding back his tears from Eyes flowed out, "He said, his dream of creating his own brand in this life was shattered, and he accepted his fate and was tired. Now he wants to sell the factory, save me a sum of money, and I will do whatever I want in the future. You can let go and do it, don't...don't feel ashamed because Dad is a counterfeit mobile phone..."

Li Libang suddenly laughed again when he said this: "You know, what did I say about him before? I called him a thief! A disgusting liar! Stealing other people's things, you can't get on the stage, and you will always be only a counterfeit!"

Cai Yang sat next to Li Libang, stretched out his arms and hugged his shoulders tightly, his eye circles were also a little red.

"Cai Yang...you know, how much I want to say sorry to him right now..." Li Libang covered his eyes with his hands, but tears rolled down his cheeks, "But it's too late, it's too late... I won't There is no chance..."