Promised period

It started to rain in the evening, and it took a lot of trouble for Chen Nian to get through the phone.The background sound over there was very noisy, someone shouted with a smile: "You are all self-defeating, you are stupid!" Then there was the sound of pushing and shuffling the cards.

"Brother, I'm looking for you."

A sentence without beginning or end.

"Yeah." Chen Jue may be biting his cigarette, and said tepidly, "What?"

"Where are you? Come back and help me..."

She wanted to be more relaxed, but she couldn't lift the corners of her mouth anyway, so she could only say to him weakly: "Song Ke is gone. No one knows where he went from this morning until now. Cheng Yi'an and I searched everywhere. He thought about everything he could think of."

"Call the police when someone disappears. I'm not responsible for this kind of thing." His tone sank.

Chen Nian was so anxious that he was about to cry, but he wasn't completely in a mess.

"He hasn't been missing long enough, and the police won't file a case. I want you to help find a relationship."

"Why should I take care of things that the police don't care about."

"But--"

"Eat!" Someone asked for a card, "Hey, if you play all the obvious cards, Chen Jue, where did your soul go?"

"Brother," she condensed her trembling voice, "You can't ignore Song Ke, he is because of you..."

Suddenly there was the sound of pushing the table to get up, his footsteps were easy to distinguish, and there was a bang when he kicked the door.After walking to a quiet place, he asked: "Because of me? Chen Nian, I haven't asked why you helped him hide it from me. Mom loved you so much before she was alive, and this is how you repay her?"

"Now is not the time to pursue this, brother, something may have happened to Song Ke, can you help find it first? I know you have many ways, first find him and we can talk, and then I will tell you everything. "

Chen Jue seemed too lazy to answer the words, and remained silent all the time.

Chen Nian had no choice but to calm down: "We found a lot of antidepressants in his home, and he is very sick, do you know that?" Anyway, she didn't believe that her brother was such a heartless person.She took a breath: "I guess you don't know either. Song Ke is always like this, always keeping uncomfortable things in her heart, how can she not get sick after a long time."

"You mean he's sick, so I should forgive him."

But she said: "It's impossible to talk about forgiveness or not forgiveness, because it was not his fault from the beginning to the end."

"It's not his fault, is it my fault?"

Faced with harsh questions, she suddenly stopped answering.The phone was so quiet that even breathing could be heard clearly, other than that, there was only light rain hitting the glass bit by bit, and the pedestrians downstairs became hazy in the fog.

After a long silence, she said thoughtfully: "Anyone can accuse Song Ke, but you can't. He has never been sorry to you. Damn's death was an accident. If you have to find someone to hate, then hate me." , Just pretend she was killed by me. I didn’t find out that she took the medicine in time that night, which delayed the treatment and sent her to the hospital too late. Are you satisfied with this answer? If not, you can take revenge with me. If you want to be a filial son, then do it, but I beg you to stop blaming the living for the sake of the dead, especially Song Ke, he—”

She was obviously trying to fight against injustice, but her voice was soft and low: "He has suffered too much for you."

Before the voice fell, the phone was disconnected.

They gathered in a hotel this time, and the men and women who came were all rich people, and they played very big cards, and after a round, they could disperse the monthly wages of ordinary people.Pushing open the door, someone gave way to Chen Jue: "If you don't come again, you will lose all your chips, and I am worried that I can't afford it!"

He went and sat down, smoking a cigarette, and said nothing for a long time.

The next few games always lose.

Friends teased him: "What's going on today, why are you willing to become a money-spreading boy? Are you interested in a beautiful woman on the table?"

Everyone laughed and set him up with another beautiful lady, only Wei Zihao came out to stop him: "You guys accept it when you see it. A while ago, Chen Juegang said that you should take care of it, and don't disturb her good couple again."

"I hear you mean you have seen it?"

I heard that Chen Jue was serious this time, but he started to come out to play again in the past few days, and everyone couldn't help being a little more curious.But Wei Zihao knew how to measure, and refused to reveal too much in front of everyone: "In short, it's different from us."

"What's the difference, tell me, could it be that there are multiple noses and multiple eyes?"

"Don't inquire about it. I've only met him a few times. He's a very polite and gentle person who treats everyone well."

Song Ke really treats everyone well, and never clings to Chen Jue's friends, just this is already extremely rare.Remembering that Chen Jue asked him to find a designer to make a ring for him, Wei Zihao thought that his good friend had failed this time, completely.

"Do you still fight or not, stop chatting, good nights are short, my friends."

One or two attentions returned to the table, only Chen Jue remained unmoved.Someone urged: "Chen Jue, take the card." He was silent for a while, stubbed out his cigarette and stood up, "Go ahead, I have to take a step ahead."

"Don't go, it's hard to get together so well, what's the big deal that we have to do now?"

He didn't explain anything, just took his things and left.

It was dark outside, and it was raining heavily.

The leather seats in the car exude a faint smell, and the coat smells like raindrops and cigarettes when you take it off.He bent down and wiped his hands with a tissue, but his eyes glanced at something in the drawer.

It's a perfume for Song Ke.

When we parted that day, Song Ke didn't take her away.

He drove the car to a place he had been to once, but was stopped by the security guard at the entrance: "Do you have a pass? Temporary cars are not allowed to enter now. A person was lost here just today!"

He asked, "Who?"

"It's hard to talk about." The other party pointed to his head mysteriously, "I heard that there is a problem here."

The words are so sensational, but in the end they still let it go, because money can turn ghosts around.As soon as he entered the gate, Chen Jue started to have a severe headache. There was an electric drill in his head, buzzing and drilling sharply, piercing his forehead non-stop.The wiper works repeatedly, and there is a layer of fog on the windshield. Outside the fog is the old building that was once familiar but now unfamiliar. It seems that something, maybe memory, maybe emotion, is already on the verge of breaking through the solid wall.

All the men, women and children in the community were holding umbrellas, and he was the only one walking in in the rain.After walking a few steps, she suddenly stopped because a piece of paper was stepped on the sole of her foot.

It's a notice about finding a cat, and it's already dirty and full of sludge.

But he still squatted down.

Even though there is a picture attached, it still describes the cat's appearance, personality, and cry in a long paragraph, and even the patch of baldness on the back of the neck is clearly described.It seemed anxious, but the wording of the last sentence was not sensational. It just wrote: Because I was adopted since I was a child, I have deep feelings, and I hope to contact you if there is any clue.

The last thing printed was Song Ke's phone number, which Chen Jue could recite by heart.

He thought, there is no need to pick it up, there must be more in front.

The surroundings are quiet and empty, but the rain echoes muffledly when you step on it. When you look up, you can see that notice is posted everywhere, and you can easily peel off one. It is wet and collapsed, shapeless.At first he held it in his hand, but when he walked into the corridor, he kneaded it into a ball.

It's ironic, I was looking for him, but he was anxious to find the cat.Maybe Song Ke has always been so cold-blooded, she doesn't care about people or things she doesn't care about.

After going upstairs, I found that the door of Song Ke's house was closed, but Chen Jue still slammed the door. The rain flowed down the coat and trouser legs to the ground, and the head and face were wet everywhere. It really looked like a lost dog.

"Stop shooting, stop shooting!"

The neighbor was so annoyed that he poked his head out and yelled loudly: "Do you let people rest after one trip? Where can a good living person be thrown? Maybe he will return early tomorrow morning. Why bother?" Got nervous."

nervous?

Chen Jue didn't feel nervous.

He put away the fist that was pounding on the door, and walked downstairs step by step.On the way, he turned around and saw the wet footprints in front of the house, as if they were still there stubbornly for him.

Where did Song Ke go, and she fled and hid in shame, thinking that as long as she hid, she could escape her past mistakes and not have to take any responsibility?

The anger in his heart became more and more intense, until Chen Jue fell into a strange and out-of-control emotion, wishing he could find Song Ke out now and torture him to death.He drove the car into the road, stopped as soon as he saw a familiar figure and rushed down, grabbed the other person by the collar and forced him to turn his face away, "Song——"

Turns out it was the wrong person.He lost his mind for a while and forgot to apologize, and the other party pointed at his face and yelled at him. He stood beside the car, his mouth tightly pursed, with unspeakable despair and anger in his eyes, but he returned to the car after all.

It was after ten o'clock at night, and the mobile phone received a message: "The monitoring near the river embankment found something."

He called: "What discovery?"

The other party suddenly paused and said, "Don't get excited."

"I'm not excited."

"Mr. Chen, your voice is trembling." He has worked in the public security system for many years, and he speaks in a calm tone when talking about any case, "Calm down, have you heard something? That corpse can't be released yet." It is confirmed that it is him, only that it is a man."

Song Ke is dead?

No, how could he die, he hasn't been punished as he should.

If you really hate someone, then you should feel very happy when the other person dies.But when Chen Jue was sitting in the car, the sound of the rustling rain suddenly disappeared, and the car was so quiet that one could panic, and only his own embarrassed expression was in the rearview mirror.He heard the person on the other end of the phone say: "...More tests are needed..." Before he finished listening, he drove the car like crazy.

On the way to the embankment, I almost drove the car into the green belt a few times, and had to get out of the car and walk nearby.As a result, when he reached the edge of the crowd, he almost tripped over a stone, and some spectators reached out to support him, telling him not to go any further: "Someone committed suicide by jumping into the river, he died!"

Chen Jue's brain went blank for a moment, and his eyes were completely dark.But I still thought in my heart, no, it is definitely not Song Ke, Song Ke is not such a weak person.

In the past, he always felt that he couldn't understand Song Ke, but at this moment he suddenly woke up. It turned out that he didn't remember anything and still knew Song Ke so far.He didn't take a step forward, but turned around and left neatly, and slammed the door behind him as soon as he got in the car.

No, it won't be Song Ke.And what if it was Song Ke?Life for life, he deserved it for killing his mother!

But he was panting heavily, sweating all over his body, his soaked shirt stuck to his skin, and it was freezing to the bone.His forehead slammed down drowsily, and he accidentally hit the horn in the middle, and the sharp siren sounded across his eardrums. He was so painful that he couldn't stand up straight. district.

It's almost zero o'clock, and there are not many cars in the urban area.The only car lights gathered on the road meandered into a warm yellow river, and the pedestrians who hadn't returned home wandered like ghosts.

He drove the car aimlessly, wherever he wanted to go, he didn't let go of any places with bits and pieces of memory left, and in the end he still circled back to the familiar residence, his headache almost split open.

I didn't know why I remembered it until I got Song Ke back. It turned out that it was the place where Song Ke lived.

Have you ever lived there?

Could that be his home too?

There is no answer, no one told him the answer, but Song Ke once mentioned lightly: "Our family."

their home...

At this moment, Chen Jue hated himself for not being able to remember. If he could remember, there would be more clues, and the chance of finding Song Ke would be greater.

The car stopped at the intersection, and a red light was waiting quietly on the opposite side.

He believed that he had passed this crossroad countless times, countless times.Because he closed his eyes and counted the seconds in his mind, and when he opened them, he knew how long it would take for the red light to turn green.

Just as he was about to step on the accelerator, a man appeared across the road, thin, thin, with his head down, and his footsteps were a little sluggish.He thought mockingly, even he began to hallucinate, and began to fantasize about finding Song Ke easily.

The car drove forward, and the people on the zebra crossing came towards him, getting closer and closer.He was holding the steering wheel, his eyes flashed for a moment, and suddenly he stepped on the brake in shock!

It's Song Ke, it's Song Ke.

The coat was very thin and wet, and he walked by the car trembling.

Chen Jue pressed the window button in shock, stretched out half of his body and shouted loudly——

"Song Ke!"

Song Ke stopped slowly, turned around and stared at him dumbfounded, as if she didn't recognize him.

The sound of horns that almost broke the roof of the car, the continuous flow of vehicles, and the drizzle.The lights of the city seemed to never go out, and the river would never run out one day, but they were standing in this river, their upper bodies were cold, their faces were covered with rain, and they stared at each other with wide eyes.

Song Ke opened her mouth, as if to say something, and then walked forward as if waking up from a dream.At first it was just walking, and then it almost started to run, faster and faster, and ran straight on the road.

"Song Ke—"

"Song Ke!"

Chen Jue called him in the deafening whistle, but he couldn't call back, so he had to turn the car around at the fastest speed regardless of the danger, and chased after him holding his breath tightly.

Such cold weather can literally freeze a person's head.

"Where are you going?!"

Song Ke walked forward without looking back, her face was numb, and the windbreaker on her body was completely wet by the rain.Chen Jue threw the car door to catch up, but he walked extremely fast, and the windbreaker flipped open, only the lining was still light-colored.After finally catching up with him, Chen Jue was relieved, and when he looked down, he realized that he was not wearing shoes.

In such a cold weather, I stepped on the water with bare feet.

Chen Jue's face was almost frozen, and he reached out to pull him: "I'm calling you, are you deaf, where have you been all day?"

Song Ke was dragged around, her head was still on the side at first, and she said, "Let me go." Then she looked at Chen Jue.

The expression on his face was extremely strange.

His moist eyes stared at Chen Jue, his lips were tightly pursed, his cheeks were pale, but his eyes were stubborn.His attitude was no longer indifferent and modest, he was pulled by Chen Jue, but his eyes met Chen Jue for a while, and avoided Chen Jue for a while.

And his voice, slightly tense, stuttered slightly: "Didn't you say... Didn't you mean never see you again? Go back to your own home, my home is so small that you, young master, cannot be accommodated."

He was so different from usual.Chen Jue forgot to get angry for a while, just stood where he was, staring closely with his eyebrows frowned.

Maybe it was too cold, he shivered for a while, but pretended not to care, he wrapped his arms around his arms, and slowly released his lips after forming a line: "Also, Xiaojiu, I am definitely looking for it. If you are willing to help Help, if you don’t want to help, it’s okay, I picked it up anyway, and it has nothing to do with you.”

The cold air choked into his nostrils, Chen Jue's body shivered, and he looked at him like an alien.But he seemed to have opened up the chatter box, stopped for a moment and then stumbled and said: "I tell you, apologizing can't solve any problems. It knows to drink water and go to the toilet regularly, how about you? You are not as sensible as a cat, and the whole time Socks and dirty clothes are thrown everywhere, and you don’t listen to them, you just want to put on airs for your young master. And why don’t you close the door when you go out to smoke? Now it’s gone, are you satisfied?” He raised his hands again and pushed angrily away. Chen Jue said, "Go, don't follow me anymore, I'm going to get it back."

Chen Jue staggered from being pushed by him, took a small step back before standing still, and called him in a low voice: "Song Ke."

"Don't follow me anymore... You said don't follow me anymore..."

"Song Ke."

His back was shouted, and he shivered deeply again.Turning around, but still sullenly: "What are you doing?"

Chen Jue's body trembled involuntarily, and he could only clenched his fists tightly to prevent his heart from throbbing with numbness and fear.

"It's me, Chen Jue."

"what?"

"I said it was me, Chen Jue."

He was slightly stunned for a long time, and then he seemed to understand the meaning of the words, and he turned his face to the side and smiled.

"Sick, of course I know you are Chen Jue."

Chen Jue's legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he walked to him with heavy steps, but he still just smiled.

The two stood facing each other, he stared at him, he looked at him.

The light was very dim, and the only light from the car shone on them through the drizzle, but they couldn't see each other's faces clearly, only the smile was clear.

He was smiling, not looking at Chen Jue, but this smile was only for Chen Jue.

Chen Jue's heart ached suddenly, and he bent down to support his knees and panted heavily.He found that time is really cruel. This smile may have represented happiness in the past, but now it only represents extreme pain.

"Chen Jue?" Song Ke panicked and hugged him without hesitation, "What are you doing, don't scare me, what's wrong?"

Chen Jue raised his hand with difficulty, and slowly and tremblingly pointed to the position of the heart.

But it's much more than that.

His hands, his body, his brain and even his eyes, all the places that have touched, gazed at, and protected Song Ke, all the places that still remember Song Ke, care about Song Ke, and long to embrace Song Ke They all fell into severe pain, because they knew better than Chen Jue himself that he loved Song Ke and never stopped for a day.