Uproarious

Ruan Zhiqing was blowing wind on the balcony. The things that happened to him recently were a bit confusing and difficult to deal with. For example, his parents just discussed with him about retirement, for example, his application for postgraduate insurance, which was originally good, suddenly went wrong. , For example, his classmate suddenly disappeared, for example, his ex-girlfriend reminded him that this incident might have something to do with his landlord.

What happened to Cen Yan this afternoon finally came to fruition.

Ruan Zhiqing felt that she had really overestimated Ruan Yanting's IQ, and also overestimated the sanity of her parents.

But maybe it was just worried that if this was true, Ruan Zhiqing would abandon them.

The phone vibrated in Ruan Zhiqing's hand for a long time.

He neither switches off nor answers.

It's true that you don't want to pick it up, but it's also true that you can't hang up.

Cen Yan didn't know when to appear, walked slowly behind him, wrapped one hand in front of Ruan Zhiqing, put it on his hand, and pressed the hang up button for him.

"Hang up if you don't want to answer, don't you understand?" Cen Yan's voice rang in Ruan Zhiqing's ear, the distance was very close, it could be seen that he did it on purpose.

After hanging up the phone, Cen Yan didn't take his hand away immediately, but took his other hand and wrapped it around Ruan Zhiqing, with his chin resting lightly on Ruan Zhiqing's shoulder.

Ruan Zhiqing also saw clearly her situation at this time, just happened to be trapped between her arms and the balcony by Cen Yan.

The overly intimate distance didn't make him run away like before.

He just frowned slightly.

"What did they say to you that night? Well, I mean your parents." Cen Yan said.

Ruan Zhiqing didn't say a word, he knew which night Cen Yan was talking about, the night he cried.

"It's nothing."

"Actually, do you still miss that home? You don't want to leave at all."

"I don't think I won't believe it." Ruan Zhiqing said.

Cen Yan smiled, "I just like your straightforwardness." He said and sniffed Ruan Zhiqing's shoulder.

Ruan Zhiqing finally couldn't take it any longer, and nudged the person behind him with her elbow, "Stay away."

Cen Yan didn't cling to him, he let go, walked to the side, propped his head on one hand and looked at Ruan Zhiqing with a scrutinizing attitude.

"I found that after a long time, you are immune."

"?" Ruan Zhiqing was puzzled.

"For example, before I just got a little closer, you would punch me, but now you have to hold me for so long before pushing me away?"

"..." Ruan Zhiqing didn't answer, he felt that he was just tired of coping.

Cen Yan was noncommittal.

"What should I do? If this continues, I will like you more and more." Cen Yan said.

Ruan Zhiqing let out a rare snort, she had heard the word "like" from Cen Yan so many times that it was no surprise at all.

"You have to give me a reason, right? I like it all day long, and the ghost knows what you like." Ruan Zhiqing looked at Cen Yan and immediately turned her gaze back to the opposite light.

"Looks good, and my taste."

"..."

"This was the beginning. Later on, a disagreement is a dry temper. I like it too. I like this kind of disobedience. The more disobedient you are, the more emotional you will be."

"..."

"And now, Ah Qing, you have something in you that I don't have, so I like and long for it."

"what?"

"I can't say it. If I have to find a word to describe this kind of thing, I think it should be 'light'."

Ruan Zhiqing couldn't help laughing again, turned around, put her back on the balcony, and looked at Cen Yan playfully with her head sideways. "You don't want to say that I am your god, do you?"

Ruan Zhiqing has seen this kind of routine before. In those TV dramas and novels, the description of the highest level of love for a person is that the other person is his god.

It's very hypocritical and hypocritical, but it's all just a rhetoric for making the bed to the last step.

People are always such hypocritical things.

"Of course not." Cen Yan also smiled, "If I were you, I would have deleted all the contact information of the so-called parents and younger brothers. Give one more point, and if a classmate with that kind of relationship has an accident and contacts me, I will definitely not make a special trip."

Ruan Zhiqing heard him continue, "You claim to be a hedgehog who stabs everyone, but it's not quite right. You were born as a hedgehog. You may be sorry, but you have been working hard to keep your thorns carefully to prevent him from getting stuck. other people."

Ruan Zhiqing was most annoyed by this kind of evaluation that seemed to see him through.With a sneer, "Don't think you know me well."

"Maybe I said it on purpose to gain favorability?" Cen Yan shrugged.

"Cen Yan, let me ask you a question. If I really agree to be with you, how long are you going to dump me?" Ruan Zhiqing asked suddenly.

Cen Yan looked surprised, and then showed a trace of grievance and dumbfounded. "Don't listen to your cousin's nonsense, I'm very dedicated."

"Can it be guaranteed for a lifetime?" Ruan Zhiqing's eyes were very sharp.

Cen Yan was stunned for a moment, but didn't say a word. For Cen Yan, such words for a lifetime were really too general.

Ruan Zhiqing smiled, "Come and talk to me someday when you feel that it's really up to me."

"So you mean, if I say it's a lifetime, you will really live with me forever?" Cen Yan thinks that Ruan Zhiqing should mean that.

"Of course not, I am me, you are you, now you are chasing me, not me chasing you."

Cen Yan couldn't help laughing, his tone seemed a little helpless, "I seem to be redefining you again? It seems like a hedgehog that is occasionally a bit naughty and cunning?"

Ruan Zhiqing didn't like the name hedgehog. "Stop being in front of the hedgehog all the time, I don't like this label."

Cen Yan just laughed.

Ruan Zhiqing looked at Cen Yan, whose smile deepened, and considered what she was going to say next.

"I have another question for you," he said.

"Ok?"

"Does Zhou Jianan's disappearance have anything to do with you?"

The air was suddenly quiet, there were no human voices, only the distant stream and heavy traffic, as well as the more subtle voices that could not be identified in the darkness.

They looked at each other for a long time.

Cen Yan finally said, "Do you want to hear from me, yes or no."

"Just answer the truth. Seriously, does it have anything to do with you? You just need to answer 'yes' or 'no', I believe both."

The two looked at each other for a while.

Ruan Zhiqing saw Cen Yan's lips move, "No."

Ruan Zhiqing was inexplicably relieved.

Cen Yan felt a little funny, "Is that how you really believe it?"

"Xin, I feel that you are too lazy to lie."

In fact, Ruan Zhiqing didn't know why she believed it, but in life, there are many things for no reason, liking for no reason, disliking for no reason, emotion for life and death for no reason, and empty for no reason.

Naturally, there is unwarranted trust.

Cen Yan smiled, and seemed satisfied with his answer.

"What? They said it was about me?"

"Well, Cheng Shishi told me to beware of you." Ruan Zhiqing didn't hide anything.

"Well... Actually, it can't be said that it doesn't matter at all."

Ruan Zhiqing looked at him suspiciously.

"Don't be nervous," Cen Yan smiled, "There was indeed an episode in the bar that day. I don't tell you, you should know that it's impossible to say how clean a place like a bar is. It's the president's eyes. The bars and nightclubs below may also be in a mess."

Ruan Zhiqing nodded.

"That day your rival in love was sneaking around outside a box, and when I passed by, I reminded him that it's okay not to look around."

"...Don't be my rival in love all day long, his name is Zhou Jianan. So is it the person in the box who did it?"

Cen Yan didn't continue to say, "It's not certain, when they came out, they didn't see your love... Zhou Jianan, they only saw me, but I don't know if they suspected that there were other people, the two people inside... , if you really want to adjust the monitoring, it's easy, I don't have much ability as a boss."

"Do you know what Zhou Jianan saw? His abnormality in the next few days must be because he saw something he shouldn't see?"

Cen Yan turned around and faced him.

"Did I say there is any reward?"

"..."

Before Ruan Zhiqing could speak, Cen Yan started giggling, "Don't be so serious, okay? Don't worry, I won't take advantage of it."

"It has nothing to do with me to control him."

"If I say that I don't know what's going on inside, you probably won't believe me." Cen Yan paused. "However, I'm not very clear about the specifics. Probably someone died."

Cen Yan said calmly.

Ruan Zhiqing's heart skipped a beat.

He has lived in a well-behaved way since he was a child, and has never been exposed to such things, so when Cen Yan casually said that someone died, he was shocked.

But when someone died in his shop, Cen Yan wasn't surprised or frightened. Such an attitude is not what ordinary people should have.

Ruan Zhiqing always felt that Cen Yan was a mysterious figure, but now he only felt that the fog was even thicker.

"What the hell is going on?"

"Maybe you've seen it on the news on TV? It's about gangsters dealing with traitors, waste and so on."

"At your bar? Did you know about this beforehand?

Cen Yan nodded, Ruan Zhiqing gasped.

"If I want to say that I don't know at all, that's a bit of nonsense. I don't know what they did. I didn't know about the dead people until later."

"...just killing people in your bar? Are you okay?"

Cen Yan laughed. "I just provided a venue."

"If you are found out, you can't get away with it." Ruan Zhiqing's tone gradually became serious.

Cen Yan was even more indifferent, "Who has evidence to prove that I know this? Maybe I am also the biggest victim. The biggest mistake is just opening a bar with mixed fish and dragons?"

"... Are there many other messy transactions?"

Cen Yan smiled and nodded.

"you……"

Cen Yan stepped aside and stood side by side with Ruan Zhiqing, looking into the distance, where the lights had been on for a long time.

"It's just for fun. If they confiscate their money, they will naturally have nothing to do with me."

Ruan Zhiqing couldn't tell what kind of emotion Cen Yan said was fun, but she still felt a little creepy.

He suddenly remembered what Cen Yan said before, being a cowherd is actually because it is fun, and opening such a bar is actually because it is fun.

But it seems to have deviated from what playboys think is fun.

Cen Yan looked at Ruan Zhiqing who was slightly frowning and thinking, and just smiled.

He could even think of what Ruan Zhiqing was thinking now.

"What kind of things do you think are fun..."

"A lot of people like us have always set the ultimate goal of pursuing the perfect crime, designing an artistic serial murder or something."

"Cen Yan!" Ruan Zhiqing interrupted him.

Cen Yan stared into his eyes without panic, and suddenly chuckled, "Just kidding, don't take it seriously."

"I know." Ruan Zhiqing said.

Cen Yan waved his hand, saying that it doesn't matter, entertainment comes first.

Ruan Zhiqing couldn't help but turned her head to look at Cen Yan again, always feeling that this person was shrouded in a layer of black mist, Cen Yan said it was a joke, but Ruan Zhiqing felt that ordinary people would not make such a joke , unless you really thought about it, or really came into contact with it.

For some reason, Ruan Zhiqing was particularly afraid of knowing more about Cen Yan's past, but she was very interested.

A handsome and cynical person like Cen Yan shouldn't be in a place like a prison.

"No." Ruan Zhiqing couldn't help holding Cen Yan's hand.

"Don't what?"

"Don't talk like that in the future."

Cen Yan resumed his usual half-smile, "If you can keep holding my hand like this, I promise to listen to you in everything."

Ruan Zhiqing quickly let go of her hand.

At this moment, Ruan Zhiqing's cell phone rang again. He thought it was his parents, but it turned out to be Cheng Shishi.

Facts have proved that Cheng Shishi's call at this time will not be good news.

"Zhiqing! Zhou Jianan is dead..."

Ruan Zhiqing's heart skipped a beat, she turned her head and subconsciously glanced at Cen Yan, but Cen Yan didn't look at him.

Cheng Shishi continued, "I caught it in the Yu River and soaked it for many days. It is said that I accidentally fell into it after being drunk. I don't believe it. Why did he run to the edge of the Yu River for no reason when he was drunk? He must have killed him, Zhi Qing. , is the bar owner still with you?"

Ruan Zhiqing looked at Cen Yan again, and said, "No."

Cheng Shishi seemed to be relieved, she seemed to believe that the murderer was Cen Yan.

Cheng Shishi talked a lot afterwards, telling him everything she knew from the police.

There seems to be a feeling that all hopes are entrusted to him.

Ruan Zhiqing felt a little dumbfounded.

He finally hung up the phone.

"Zhou Jianan is dead." Ruan Zhiqing said to Cen Yan.

There was still no sadness or joy on Cen Yan's face, nor any surprise.

It was just silent for a while, "No surprise, after being missing for such a long time, it is generally impossible to survive."

"Drunken and drowned. Cheng Shishi insisted on committing suicide. Zhou Jianan's parents went to the police station to ask for an explanation. Now the police are preparing for further investigation."

"Drunk, stumbled and drowned?" Cen Yan repeated and then laughed, "Such hasty handling is not like the two people I know. If it were me, I would definitely choose to dismember the corpse and scatter it in Yujiang In every corner, there is no possibility of even checking. Before dismembering the corpse, plastic film has to be filled everywhere in a small space like the bathroom. The bones that are difficult to shred are burned, and the ones that cannot be burned are best found to be replaced as quickly as possible. Garbage transfer station throwing corpses, but this is still quite troublesome, so in fact, the best way is to buy a murderer. It is best to buy the kind of ghost that only needs money but not life, which saves trouble and has no loopholes. I always feel that this is what they know best The way to choose..."

Cen Yan's words were as easy as eating a meal, Ruan Zhiqing's forehead twitched.

"Cen Yan..."

Cen Yan, who was immersed in thinking, came back to his senses, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, don't talk about it, let's rest, I'll go see Cheng Shishi tomorrow."

Cen Yan smiled, "Good night."

Looking at Ruan Zhiqing's leaving back, the smile on Cen Yan's face gradually faded.

In the middle of the night, Cen Yan, who was lying flat on his bed, frowned and closed his eyes.

The scene I dreamed of almost every night, the dark days when I was locked in the closet, the screams of men and women outside, the red debris flying around, and the kittens and puppies that died in my hands.

The man said to him gently, "My dear boy, feel the pleasure of life passing by in your hands. Do you feel solemn and heavy? One day, you will see your own life through these. You have to believe that this It's a ritual."

The scene changed, and it turned into the man strangling his neck desperately, with a hideous face.

Cen Yan couldn't speak, he just felt suffocated, and felt that he was going to die in the next second.

I woke up suddenly.

He was out of breath, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.

He sat up without turning on the light, and sat alone in the dark, silent for a long time, then laughed at himself, "Sure enough, it still doesn't work."

That's why he likes to hang out at night and would rather never sleep if he could.

Cen Yan sat for a while, finally decided to get out of bed, and wandered to Ruan Zhiqing's door like a ghost.

Ruan Zhiqing never had the habit of locking the door, so Cen Yan went in easily.

Ruan Zhiqing slept soundly, his sleep was always good.

Like a cat, Cen Yan climbed onto Ruan Zhiqing's bed lightly, found a place beside him and lay down, curled up in a ball, the movement was so small that the sleeping Ruan Zhiqing couldn't feel it at all. .

Cen Yan said softly, "Good night~"

He closed his eyes.