Cross the sea

Let me know, it will be updated every other day in the future. It is no secret that Li Xiangting remarried in Haishi. It is not a young female college student, nor a beautiful female subordinate, but a single mother who is about to turn 50 and opens a convenience store in front of the university. It's true gossip in the entertainment industry, everyone is more interested in this kind of gossip in this city, but this is only limited to private conversation after drinking, no one is stupid enough to talk nonsense in front of Li Chengyun.

No one thought that Li Chengyun would say it by himself.

"My brother is here."

Li Chengyun looked past everyone and landed at the door, the light passed through the glass, and the bright yellow liquid was illuminated white.

The private room was quiet, and only the vibration of the music in the next room could be vaguely heard. Zhou An raised his eyes to look at Li Chengyun's side face, paused for a few seconds, and walked up to He Zhen with dry smiles to smooth things over: "Xueba has really changed. If I saw it on the main road, I wouldn't dare to recognize it—" "—it hasn't changed much."

Li Chengyun interrupted suddenly, bending his eyes, "Is there anything I dare not admit."

He Zhen stood there laughing, he didn't answer Li Chengyun's words, turned his head and said hello to Zhou An, then walked to the wine table, took the unused wine glass on the table, filled it with wine and picked it up.

"Sorry, there is a bit of a traffic jam on the road, it's over, I'll punish myself first."

Everyone around stared at him, He Zhen raised his head and finished the wine, frowned slightly when he put down the glass, but soon continued to laugh: "Everyone keep playing, it's not good for me to affect the atmosphere. "

It's not that they haven't improved at all in the past few years. Li Chengyun looked at Hezhen through the gaps in the crowd, saw him with a fake smile, and perfunctory everyone, including Li Chengyun.

Li Chengyun looked away, clinked glasses with the people standing beside him, and lowered his head to take a sip of the wine.

No one wanted to make the atmosphere of the party too awkward, and everyone's topic quickly returned to promotion, soaring housing prices, and gossip about classmates who didn't show up.

None of this seems to have anything to do with He Zhen. The huge curtain is playing an old song's MV. He Zhen sits on a high swivel chair and stares at it. His fingers on his knees occasionally lift up. An Qianqiu sitting next to him doesn't know what to say. After saying something, He Zhen turned to look at her, then raised his head and smiled, the setting sun on the curtain stopped in the corner of his eyes.

"Are you still talking about me? Who picked up April Fool's Day to confess to your crush, went there with chocolates and came back with chocolates in your arms."

The girl patted the table and laughed, the curly hair on her chest trembled, "It seems to be from the courtyard next door, what is it called... Oh yes, Shen Sui, right?"

The girl sitting opposite blushed, grabbed a few sieves and threw them over.

"You haven't contacted your first love recently, maybe you can rekindle your old relationship."

"Burn the ass."

Chen Zheng lit up the cigarette, took a puff, and then said: "If she wants to burn it, she can only go to the police station to burn it - what do you want me to do? Don't you know that Shen Sui went in?"

"What's going on? Isn't Shen Sui's family quite capable? I remember..."

Chen Zheng curled his lips: "Bribe, it's not a big deal to find a relationship as usual, but he is also unlucky. He was directly caught with personal stolen goods and sentenced to seven years in prison."

When Chen Zheng said these words, An Qianqiu finally turned around, and she couldn't help but look at Li Chengyun who was sitting on the single sofa.

Li Chengyun sat next to a qualified audience with a natural demeanor, holding the glass loosely with his fingers, looking down at the wine-stained floor tiles, and after Chen Zheng finished speaking, he shook the ice cubes in the empty wine glass.

"I'm going to wash my hands."

He Zhen spoke behind An Qianqiu, An Qianqiu turned his head, and He Zhen showed her the light red juice on his palm with a smile, "Eat a watermelon and it's all over your hands."

"Hezhen."

An Qianqiu called him, paused for a while before asking: "Do you remember Shen Sui?"

"Remember, what happened?"

"fine."

An Qianqiu took a big sip of the beer on hand, and then let out a sigh of relief: "Go and wash your hands."

The smell in the corridor was much better than that in the box, He Zhen walked to the bathroom, occasionally distracted by the paintings hanging on the wall.

The corridor is very long, and there is a yellow baffle in front of the toilet closest to the box, with four big characters that say it is suspended.

He Zhen didn't want to go back too early at first, so he took a long detour and found another bathroom according to the light sign on the beam.

He Zhen stood in front of the mirror and washed his hands. The faucets in high-end restaurants had a small amount of water and the water temperature was just right, unlike in the army, where the water column was so big that it seemed to dig into the cracks in the bones.

After washing his hands, He Zhen bent down and splashed a handful of water on his face. The warm water flowed down his arms and condensed into a huge drop of water on his elbow.

He Zhen raised his head with half-closed eyes, and saw Li Chengyun standing at the door. He had no expression on his face. He paused for a few seconds before raising his hand and handing over a tissue.

"Thank you."

"You're being polite now."

He Zhen paused for wiping the water. He kneaded the paper towel in his hand and said, "Was I rude before?"

"Ah."

Li Chengyun said with a smile, "In the past, I would deliberately break the faucet and the air conditioner in the dormitory, throw away other people's shoes, and threaten others."

"Really, then I'm pretty bad."

He Zhen walked over and stood in front of Li Chengyun.

"Okay."

Li Chengyun raised his eyebrows lightly, turned sideways to make room, and added another sentence when he walked out: "It's not unbearable."

They walked towards the box, Li Chengyun was always half a body behind him, he could catch a glimpse of his blurred face out of the corner of the eye, and He Zhen began to panic for no reason.

"Either you will walk with me, or you will walk in front of me."

He Zhen stopped suddenly and turned around, Li Chengyun was very close to him, He Zhen took a step back, "Don't follow me."

Li Chengyun stared at him, waiting for him to continue.

"I do not like."

Originally thought that Li Chengyun would still say "before" what happened to him, but Li Chengyun didn't say anything, just took a step forward and stood beside him.

He Zhen was organizing his words, but before he could speak, the door obliquely in front of him was suddenly pushed open, and a woman in a light-colored suit came out, his eyes swept over and stopped on the two of them.

"Hezhen."

The woman called his name softly.

He Zhen didn't recall it for too long, and quickly recognized this person as Shen Tingyu. He didn't have much dealings with Shen Tingyu, but he didn't like this person, and he didn't like him for no reason.

"I thought you wouldn't go back to Haishi."

Shen Tingyu walked over, her slender high heels stuck in the carpet, "I heard that you have enlisted in the army."

"I—" "You and He Zhen are not familiar enough to chat."

Li Chengyun interrupted Hezhen, he took a step forward, blocking Shen Tingyu's sight of Hezhen.

"Yeah, not familiar."

Shen Tingyu nodded lightly, "I should be familiar with you, right? After all, it's also your fault that our stock has fallen like that."

Li Chengyun showed a somewhat puzzled expression. He looked at Shen Tingyu and said with a smile, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"You took revenge on Shen Sui and me, I can understand the truth, but you really don't know why your mother committed suicide? Is it because of me and Shen Sui?"

Shen Tingyu's eyes were wide open. She raised her finger and pointed at He Zhen standing behind Li Chengyun, her voice was cold: "Li Chengyun, don't you have nightmares at night?"

"will not."

Li Chengyun brushed Shen Tingyu's hand away, "I have been sleeping very well."

Shen Tingyu didn't speak anymore, maybe she was too angry, or maybe she really had nothing to say, she turned around and walked back, closing the door so hard that the paintings on the wall trembled.

Li Chengyun didn't seem to hear, he took two steps forward, pushed open the window, took out a cigarette case from his pocket, took one and bit it in his mouth, then knocked out another one, turned his head and asked him: "Do you smoke. "

Outside the window are tall buildings, and the reflective glass floor makes the light dazzling, and the light and shadow all fall on Li Chengyun's profile.

He Zhen walked over and took the cigarette in his hand. He watched Li Chengyun skillfully lit the fire, and the bluish-gray smoke quickly rose and spread before his eyes.

"Your mother committed suicide?"

"Ah."

Li Chengyun was too calm, so calm that Hezhen began to panic again for no reason. He looked at Li Chengyun's face in the white smoke, and remembered Shen Tingyu's finger on his face.

"Because of me?"

The corridor was empty, and the smoke was scattered between the two people. Li Chengyun turned his head to look at him, the fire in his hand was blown bright by the wind.

He Zhen didn't know why he asked such a question. To be honest, he regretted it the second he said this sentence. No matter whether Li Chengyun answered yes or no, he regretted it.

The phone started to ring, and when the lengthy ring was repeated for the second time, He Zhen picked it up, and Yuan Jianan's loud voice came from the receiver: "What time do you finish, I just passed by your side, do you want me to pick you up at night ?”

Li Chengyun crushed the cigarette butts in his hand on the window sill, leaving scorched black marks. He turned sideways and faced He Zhen who was holding a mobile phone. Before He Zhen could answer, Li Chengyun spoke first.

"If I say yes."

Li Chengyun stretched out his hand and put He Zhen's mobile phone aside from his ear.

"If I say it's because of you, do you want to atone for it?"