love of life

Lin Zexi was dragged all the way back to the room by Gu Ming, and stood at the entrance in a daze, a little lost in thought.Gu Ming put his luggage away, dragged him into the room, pushed him to sit on the bed not too gently, staring at him, the whole room could only hear the whining sound of the air conditioner.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the silence gradually turned into a dead silence.Gu Ming was sitting on the single sofa, the ashtray on the coffee table was already full of cigarette butts, and the room was filled with smoke.He finished smoking the last cigarette in the cigarette case, pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray with his right hand, straightened his upper body and leaned back on the sofa chair, staring at Lin Zexi who had been silent all this time.

"My patience is exhausted, can you explain to me the scene just now?" Gu Ming said slowly, word by word.His voice was calm, not aggressive at all, and his anger had been drawn out of his body with the puff of smoke, circling around the room.

Lin Zexi sat motionless, Gu Ming waited for a few seconds, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, glanced at the time, then threw it on the coffee table and continued: "I'm making a call now, I can't think of half an hour. If you can know the answer, or even simpler, Yu Xiaoxiao lives next door, she will definitely be willing to tell me."

Lin Zexi finally raised his head to look at him, his eyes glazed over.

Gu Ming exhaled forcefully through his nose and said, "Let me start with you, starting from the first time you met her. You were still in school at that time, right? Was it summer or winter?"

Lin Zexi's thoughts gradually drifted away with Gu Ming's question, and he struggled with opening and closing his lips for a long time without uttering a word.Gu Ming slapped the armrest of the sofa with his right hand, stood up and said, "Forget it, I'll go find her." Gu Ming was about to walk towards the door when Lin Zexi suddenly stood up from the bed and stretched out his hand to hold him , but because of inactivity for a long time, his right foot went numb, and his knee slammed on the ground.He didn't care about getting up, reached out his hand and grabbed Gu Ming's cuff in a panic, and uttered three dry words in a hoarse throat: "Don't, I said."

Gu Ming didn't turn around, but just glanced back at the half-kneeling look of him on the ground, and suddenly got angry.He grabbed his arm with his right hand, pulled him up from the ground, pushed him down on the bed, moved the stool next to him and sat by the bed, and looked at him with his arms folded.At this moment, Gu Ming's cell phone rang suddenly. He reached out and grabbed it to take a look, then turned it off and threw it on the sofa, and continued to stare at him.

Lin Zexi got up from the bed, rubbed his numb right leg, and finally opened his mouth.

"She, let me say Yu Xiaoxiao, we are in the same class, and we have known each other since we entered university. She doesn't like me very much. We haven't seen each other for many years. I didn't expect to meet here today." Lin Zexi raised his head and took a look. Gu Ming, the latter kept staring at him with a dissatisfied expression on his face.

"I'm impatient to listen to you go around in circles. I'll ask you to answer it. Who is Wang Yijie?" Gu Ming asked bluntly.

Hearing this name without warning, his eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he looked in surprise at the person in front of him who was five years younger than him, who was not of the same age, how could he know this name.

"How do you know this name?" Lin Zexi asked.

"Now I'm the one to ask you the questions. Judging by your expression, you know him very well. Tell me about him." Gu Ming changed his comfortable posture and leaned back on the chair.

"He is my classmate, we share a dormitory, and we have a good relationship. Later, he had an accident and was admitted to the hospital, and we have no contact with each other." Lin Zexi stammered and paused several times before he spoke. finished.

Gu Ming frowned, not very satisfied with his answer.Then asked: "Where have you been in the past few years? You didn't graduate from college? Why did you become a driver for others?"

"I went to prison for the crime of intentional wounding. I was originally sentenced to seven years and three months. Because of my good behavior, I was released early in five years." His expression was a little disengaged and expressionless, as if he was telling someone else's story.

Gu Ming frowned even deeper, the answer was really beyond his expectation.Prison, how far away it was for him, the man in front of him had lived alone in prison for five years.At this moment, his mood is a little complicated, the crime of intentional injury?Is this the man in front of you who never speaks loudly? "You mean you beat Wang Yijie to the hospital?" Gu Ming thought for a moment, and the plot in his mind gradually became clear.Wang Yijie and Yu Xiaoxiao were lovers. Later, Lin Zexi injured Wang Yijie. Lin Zexi went to prison and was released early five years later. According to regulations, he had to report to Police Officer Liu regularly.Everything makes sense, except for one thing. "Why did you hit him?"

Lin Zexi swallowed, paused for a while and then slowly said, "I...it's all my fault."

"Why? He took love with a knife? You hate because of love? Or did you dislike him because of his arrogance? Didn't you just say that you have a good relationship?" Gu Ming continued to ask.

This time he didn't answer, and kept his head down in silence.

"Give me your wallet." Gu Ming said.

He looked up puzzled.

"Wallet, here."

He slowly took out the dilapidated wallet from his pocket and handed it to him, with some hesitation.

Gu Ming took the wallet and skillfully pulled out an old photo from the plastic interlayer.He held up the photo and asked, "Is this person Wang Yijie?"

Lin Zexi's face changed, and he stared at Gu Ming and the photo in his hand with wide eyes. "You, how do you know this photo? You go through my things."

"I'm not that boring. But since you hate him so much that you beat him to the hospital, why do you still carry his photo with you? It's still a photo of the two of you."

Lin Zexi was at a loss for words for a moment, not knowing how to answer.Gu Ming continued: "Don't you feel familiar with the railings in the photo and the scenery outside?"

Lin Zexi focused on the photo, which was a selfie taken by the two of them when they traveled to Dali alone during the summer vacation six years ago. After returning home, he secretly washed a photo and put it in his wallet.He followed Gu Ming's hand and looked out the window. The railings on the balcony had been repainted, but the color and shape hadn't changed at all, the blue lake and sky, and the golden sunset.It wasn't until now that he noticed that he was in the same hotel and the same room as that time.His face turned blue all of a sudden, and he looked around, heavy memories swept in like a thick fog, making him at a loss for what to do.He subconsciously stroked the white sheets with his hands. He still remembered that Wang Yijie gave him the bed by the window. Before going to bed, they each went to their own beds, but they got confused together in the middle of the night.It's the bed he's sitting on right now. There's a cold, slippery feeling under his palms, and there's no warmth in his memory at all.

Gu Ming sat on the side, watching him close his eyes and immersed in the memory, and his hands that kept rubbing conveyed his reluctance.Gu Ming clenched his teeth unconsciously, and his breathing became heavy.He stood up suddenly, stepped to the front of the bed, put his left hand on the bed, and pulled his palm away from the bed with his right hand.Lin Zexi's body froze all of a sudden, and he subconsciously moved back, keeping a little distance from him, but his right hand was tightly grasped by him.Gu Ming knelt on the bed, leaned forward and approached him, and whispered in his ear: "What are you thinking? In this room, on this bed, there are memories of you, right? You... Do you miss it?"

There was a wave of heat coming from his ear, accompanied by a soft murmur, the familiar side face, and the familiar scene, Lin Zexi lost his judgment in a trance. This scene had appeared in his dreams countless times.His heart beat faster, he felt his whole body was wrapped in a warm current, and the long-lost name overflowed from his mouth involuntarily, "Yijie."

He only felt a pain in his wrist, and then his body was pushed hard, and he fell back heavily on the bed.He blinked hard and regained the focus, but met Gu Ming's furious face.