The soul of the ex-husband

It was very hot outside the car, and the billowing heat wave hit my face, making it unbearably stuffy.

Peter Pan checked the weather forecast on his phone and muttered, "It seems to be raining tonight..."

Tata opened the back door of the van a long time ago, and sat facing the outside, so that it was convenient to chat with Zhou Heng in the wheelchair.

The two chatted for about 5 minutes, during which they kept looking at the convenience store across the street.

And there was a long-legged young man squatting in front of the convenience store, who was smoking a cigarette while bowing his head and playing with his mobile phone.

The lights of the coin-operated rocking car next to the young man flickered, and there was a cheerful music in the ups and downs——

"What's daddy's daddy's name?"

"Daddy's daddy is called grandpa!"

"What's father's mother's name?"

"Father's mother is called grandma...what is the name of father's brother..."

"You want to know what he has been through for so many years, and that's all I know."

Tata told Zhou Heng everything about Xiao Qi, and he was a little thirsty, so he picked up a bottle of Baisui Mountain and took a sip.

Then, Tata said again:

"I joined the division three years ago. At that time, I was still working in a haunted house. One time, the haunted house was really haunted. Fortunately, old Mr. Qian Jisuan came to save the place. I got to know them after that. Originally, I wanted to pay homage to the old man. Mr. is a teacher, but he no longer accepts apprentices. Xiao Qi is his closed disciple. After that, I want to worship Xiao Qi as a teacher. After all, he is handsome, but the old man said that Xiao Qi’s cultivation is not enough. In the end, I just I can settle for the next best thing..."

"What's the best thing?" Peter Pan interjected, "Sister, how sad is Sun Xiaoyuan when you talk like that?"

Tata threw an empty plastic bottle over, didn't bother to pay attention to Peter Pan, turned around and continued to explain to Zhou Heng: "So Xiao Qi and I have known each other for three years, we are in the same school, my seniority is younger than him, but we have a strong relationship , I know all about his situation in recent years, and as for the things before that, I all inquired from the master."

Zhou Heng stared at the young man on the opposite side of the street for a long time, and asked, "Didn't others find out that he was pretending to be stupid in the past nine years?"

Tata stretched out a finger and shook it, and said sincerely: "Oscar owes him a statuette. Not only can he act, but he also has amazing endurance. As long as he doesn't want the other party to find out, no one will be able to see through."

Zhou Heng dragged his chin with one hand, looked across the street, squinted his eyes thoughtfully, and said, "So, he spent nine years taking revenge on his father..."

"Hey..." Mentioning this, Tata couldn't help sighing, and she said, "I know that my uncle holds grudges, but I just don't understand. Isn't it tired after pretending to be a fool for nine years? Xiao Jian'an is just like that." He's dead, what is there to look forward to? If the uncle can let go and reconcile with himself earlier, he will be much more relaxed, but he wants to trap himself in hatred and hurt his family, why not Hurt yourself?"

Zhou Heng was obviously silent for a while, and asked softly: "Have you received electric shock treatment from the Internet Rehabilitation Center?"

"Ah?" Tata couldn't figure it out for a while, and subconsciously said, "No."

Zhou Heng finally took a deep look at Xiao Qi across the street, then he turned his face to look at Tata, smiled, and his tone was as relaxed as talking about the weather:

"When the electric current hits the upper temple, you will feel like a long needle piercing into your brain and stirring. It will make you feel so painful that your eyes will turn black and your whole body will twitch. If it is just a brief and simple pain, you may be able to bear it. , but the horror is that someone controls the switch, once you answer the wrong question, the switch will be pressed, so you never know when the electric shock will start, and it will last for a long time, so you instinctively have fear, despair, psychologically The damage you suffer is not less than physical, if you never know how to obey and are always resisting, then the therapist will often give you electric shock therapy until you succumb, which is called character correction.”

In the front seat of the van, Peter Pan rolled down the window, looked at Zhou Heng, and said hesitantly, "You mean, Master Xiao used to..."

Zhou Heng glanced at Peter Pan, and continued: "In short, it is an experience that one would never want to try a second time after experiencing it once. Many people who have experienced it once, when they hear that they will enter the treatment room again, Will be so frightened that I want to commit suicide... Then, do you know how many times Xiao Qi has experienced it?"

Tata opened his mouth and said in a daze, "Twice?"

"Eight times." Zhou Heng said, "Xiao Qi forcibly received eight electric shocks within a month. The first time I saw him, there were scorched marks on his temple."

Tata clenched her fingers tightly, feeling an indescribable feeling in her heart, which was shocking, but also a little empty and sour.

She only heard Xiao Qi casually talk about the Internet ring center, but she never thought that the process would be so painful, almost cruel.

Zhou Heng asked again: "Do you have the most trusted person?"

Tata pursed her lips, thought for a while, and nodded.

"Then have you ever experienced being betrayed by the person you trust the most?" Zhou Heng didn't give Tata time to respond, and said to himself, "In the first month, Xiao Qi couldn't bear it and ran away, and no one could find him. Xiao Jian'an called Xiao Qi and told him that his grandfather was seriously ill and asked him to go back, but Xiao Qi was restrained as soon as he entered the house, tied up, and sent to the Internet ring center. Only then did he know Father was lying to him, Xiao Qi said..."

Zhou Heng blinked slowly, his eyes became empty, as if he was lost in memory, and said: "Xiao Qi said, at that moment he felt that there was nowhere to escape, his trust collapsed, he would never trust anyone again, and at the same time he was very nervous. I want to cry, because he has no one to trust, and he can only fight against the world alone in the future."

Finally, Zhou Heng said: "If you haven't experienced the severe pain, fear and betrayal that Xiao Qi experienced, then please don't judge his life indiscriminately. In this matter, he has no way to reconcile and pretend to be The best way for a fool to humiliate his father is to fight fire with fire."

Zhou Heng looked at Tata with the same gentle and pale appearance, but Tata noticed the harshness and indisputableness in those deep eyes.

Tata couldn't help but look away, suddenly feeling ashamed.

Indeed, she couldn't empathize with her, so why should she dictate Xiao Qi's life.

The atmosphere in the back alley became silent.

The air pressure is low, like a thunderstorm is coming, but the wind blowing is still hot.

Tata felt sorry for Xiao Qi silently for a while, then, looking at Zhou Heng, said: "Since you know that he has experienced this, why do you still lie to him? Do you know that Xiao Qi has been treating you for so many years..."

At this time, Peter Pan suddenly exclaimed towards the entrance of the alley: "Uncle!"

The crowd looked at the sound.

I saw Xiao Qi standing there with his back to the light.

I don't know how long I've been back.

How long have you been listening.

***

Tata quickly shut her mouth.

Seeing Xiao Qi appearing, Zhou Heng slightly bent his eyes and smiled kindly: "Hi, I'm back."

It's as if nothing just happened.

Xiao Qi smoked a cigarette and came back, his face was still not pretty.

He walked to the van, glanced at Zhou Heng, thought for a while, and still had an awkward chat: "Aren't you going home?"

Zhou Heng said: "Uncle Biao will pick you up later."

"Okay." Xiao Qi turned the Tata at the entrance of the traffic jam to the inside, stepped on the car, and said, "Let's go first."

Tata choked slightly.

That's it?

Old lovers just talk about these unnutritious things when they meet?

Xiao Qi got into the car, and just about to close the rear door, Zhou Heng suddenly said in a low voice: "I'm sorry... I never thought of lying to you."

Xiao Qi paused for the hand holding the car door.

The other three looked at each other, and turned to look at the other side of the car at the same time, politely avoiding.

But the ears are pricked up.

Xiao Qi was silent for a long while, turned his face to look at Zhou Heng, and pulled out a casual smile: "There is nothing worth apologizing for, the past is in the past, I have long forgotten."

However, Zhou Heng shook his head and looked away: "I came to Cangshi with my parents to visit relatives, and I was in a car accident. When I woke up, I was already in a wandering spirit state, and then I met you... On the night after receiving the certificate, I said God has something to tell you, in fact, this is what I want to talk about, but when I regained consciousness the next day, I had already arrived in He Kingdom, and only then did I know that my physical body is not dead yet, but I have no chance to tell you... Kongkong... I said Xiao Qi, I didn't leave without saying goodbye, and I didn't lie to you..."

Speaking of this, Zhou Heng's eyes dropped, his expression was three points delicate and seven points fragile: "It's all my fault. If I could have confessed to you earlier, maybe you wouldn't have been troubled for so long..."

In the car, Tata grabbed the hem of his shirt and wiped the corners of his eyes.

She always thought that Zhou Heng was a dog man who ran away after playing with his feelings, but now she realized that his departure was out of force majeure, and... for some reason, when Zhou Heng talked about these things, people always felt distressed, Makes me want to take good care of him.

"It's okay, you also have your own difficulties..." Tata wiped the corners of her eyes again, and answered Xiao Qi in a low voice.

Peter Pan was also moved. He sniffled and muttered, "So it's A Chinese Ghost Story..."

At this time, a clearer and colder voice sounded, with clear thoughts: "Did you lie to me? Pretend to be a woman and fall in love with me...Is it you?"

As soon as these words came out, the air froze.

But soon, Zhou Heng smiled and said: "I never said I was a woman, and you didn't ask, I never lied to you about gender."

Xiao Qi: "..."

What a fucking logician you are.

When Xiao Qi and Zhou Heng first met, Zhou Heng looked like a pretty girl, if Zhou Heng didn't take the initiative to mention it, no one would be able to tell his gender.

"Okay, even if you didn't hide your gender." Xiao Qi was not happy, and said, "You are a man, what kind of women's clothes are you wearing?"

"Family tradition." Zhou Heng answered eloquently, "All males are raised as girls to ward off evil spirits."

Xiao Qi gave a "tsk" unhappily, and knocked on the car door.

He knew that there were such superstitions in some places, so he couldn't refute it. He thought that Lin Wan was here to show people in women's clothes all day long for the reason of warding off evil spirits.

"What about the ghost marriage?" Xiao Qi turned sideways and turned to the outside of the car door. He simply let go of all the knots in his heart, and said with an unhappy face, "Dare you say that you didn't deliberately trick me into getting a ghost marriage? The kind with proof!"

This time, Zhou Heng didn't speak anymore, just looked at Xiao Qi quietly.

a long time.

Xiao Qi understood, he snorted coldly, looked down at the hands that were caressing each other, and said: "Mr. Zhou, some things, let them go in the past, and it's meaningless to bring them up again. Let's pretend...it never happened. All right?"

Just at this moment, a black car stopped at the intersection of the dark alley.

After a while, Uncle Biao came down and said with a smile, "Master, I've been waiting for a long time."

The car that picks up Zhouheng arrives.

Before Uncle Biao pushed the wheelchair away, Zhou Heng made a gesture, and Uncle Biao stopped.

"I know you can't forgive me, but please don't be angry..." Zhou Heng turned his back to Xiao Qi, and said in a low voice, "A despicable person like me is not worthy of your anger, if you forget the memories about me Can make you happy, then, let’s let those things go, as if it never happened, although, that memory has always been my treasure...Sorry, my feelings are not important...Anyway, I’m sorry, Xiao Qi , I hid too many things from you back then, I apologize, and I will never appear in front of you again."

Tata bit her cuff and cried "woo hoo hoo".

God, it hurts so much.

And Xiao Qi leaned on the back of the chair, when he looked ahead, the dim street lamps illuminated his slightly raised jaw, the lines were a little tight, and looking at those star eyes hidden in the darkness, it seemed that a layer of mist had formed .

Zhou Heng's words almost made Xiao Qi's heart twist.

At first, Zhou Heng really made Xiao Qi very angry. From Xiao Qi's point of view, his marriage was full of deceit, but the instigator lightly said "I didn't deceive you", which directly aroused his blood pressure to rise, so he put a lot of pressure on him. Harsh words.

But after hearing Zhou Heng's apology, Xiao Qi gradually felt that there is nothing unforgivable. Zhou Heng must have had his own helplessness in the past, so he concealed many things. In addition, Zhou Heng said that in order to make him happy, Never appearing in front of him again, Xiao Qi actually felt a little guilty, wondering if he was too aggressive.

Besides, isn't that memory his treasure?How can you say that if you forget it, you forget it?

After Zhou Heng left, the van stayed in place for a long time.

Xiao Qi held an unlit cigarette in his mouth, stared blankly for a while, then suddenly said: "Am I going too far?"

Tata wiped her eyes, nodded, and said, "Indeed..."

But before the words were finished, Tata looked at Xiao Qi with a slightly sluggish gaze: "Uncle Shi, you..."

Xiao Qi let out a listless "Huh?"

Tata blinked her eyes. Now she recalled what Zhou Heng said, but the more she thought about it, the more wrong it became.

Obviously it was Zhou Heng who did something wrong to the uncle, some things are quite annoying, why is the uncle feeling guilty now?

Thinking of this, Tata suddenly woke up.

She said something was wrong, it turned out that there was a strong tea smell wafting from Zhou Heng's body!

As soon as the black car got on the elevated road, it began to rain heavily at night.

Through the rearview mirror, Uncle Biao noticed that Zhou Heng was looking out the window, his side face was cold and dead.

Uncle Biao watched Zhou Heng grow up, and he could clearly feel that Zhou Heng's personality had changed a lot since he woke up.

Just like now, the aura of the youth makes him feel strange.

"Master." Uncle Biao broke the silence and said with a smile, "Are you tired today?"

Day Heng shook his head.

Columns of rain flowed down the glass windows, and street lamps passed through the raindrops, leaving mottled shadows on Zhou Heng's pale face.

Uncle Biao said, "What's the matter? Are you having trouble chatting with your friends?"

Hearing this, Zhou Heng blinked his eyelashes lightly, and finally became more alive.

After a while, he drooped his long and narrow eyes, looked at his slender and white fingers, and said in a low voice: "Baby...some things, I can't get over it."

The rain outside the window suddenly accelerated for a while.