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"Didn't you say you want to go home?" Yang Jian asked.

"I'm still worried," You Lili's voice sounded like she'd been crying before, but when she got closer, she realized that her eyeballs were a little red and swollen, "I was wrong just now, and I just wanted you to coax me."

"How long have you been waiting?" Yang Jian wiped the rainwater off his face.

"It's almost an hour, it's past two o'clock..." You Lili said softly, pulling on Yang Jian's wrist, trying to pull him under her umbrella.But Yang Jian glanced back, pulled Li Bai who was dazed behind him, and pushed towards You Lili, "Your sister-in-law has been holding it for a long time, help someone beat her."

Only then did Li Bai realize that this person was talking to him, and in the next second he stood shoulder to shoulder with You Lili, and the person next to him was obviously as frozen as he was, with the umbrella tilted, and a large stream of rainwater dripping from the canopy The beating was crackling, and I saw Yang Jian standing in the rain and already started to walk forward, "Let's go to the intersection and take a taxi, and take the lady home first."

As soon as the words fell, Li Bai's head felt cold, and the umbrella was removed from his head again. You Lili stepped on her high-heeled shoes and chased after Yang Jian, "I'm calling for you."

Li Bai also hurried to catch up, and heard Yang Jian say, "I am the older brother."

"Brother is going to give way to younger brother?" You Lili seemed to be smiling, her tone was mischievous, as if she was joking, "You two don't think it looks good to let him get wet outside in the rain? Then you teach him to go out with a Umbrella?"

Yang Jian didn't say anything, but he didn't stand in the range of shelter from the rain, You Lili staggered, it seemed that it suddenly became difficult to get close.The three of them kept a certain distance from each other, and walked silently under the lightning and thunder, until they reached the intersection hundreds of meters away.The two intersecting roads are both main roads. At this hour, vehicles pass by from time to time. Yang Jian stopped and waved to a car suspected of being rented, but was blocked by You Lili, "What do you mean, Yang? Cut."

"I don't want to be noisy."

"I didn't want to argue, I just asked what you mean."

"It's been hard work for you to wait for me. Now I want to find a car to take you home and rest. I'll talk about it tomorrow." Yang Jian took half a step back, and raised his right hand that was pressed down by the girl. "That's it." mean."

The car passed by without slowing down at all, with splashes like wings around the tires, and the windshield was shining red. It was an empty car.

"You think I'm annoying, and I'm just looking for trouble for you by staying here, don't you?" You Lili asked.

"Lily." Yang Jian said.

"Then you don't think he's bothering you," You Lili put away her umbrella in a messy mess, pointing at Li Bai with the handle of the umbrella, "he got himself into the trap and tossed around in it for a long time before he came out. Annoying, it means being innocent means being pitiful, isn’t it?”

Li Bai's throat suddenly tightened, as if there was only a small slit left, and he used this slit to breathe, but at this moment, the wet eyelashes stuck into his eyes, but he wanted to be a wooden man, unable to lift a finger to rub it. .

Fortunately, Yang Jian didn't spend enough energy to pay attention to his weirdness. He pressed down the rifle-like umbrella, looked at You Lili and said, "I'm very tired now, I just want to get things sorted out and find a place to sleep. I hope you can understand me."

"Yes, you are tired, do you still say that you have no time to sleep in Shanghai and talk to me on the phone every day? But you forgot? It was my birthday last week, and today is 520. We haven't seen each other for more than ten days," You Lily burst into tears in the middle of speaking, "I'm your girlfriend, you were drinking coffee with me, and then you ran over here when you got a call, and you got impatient after explaining to me, and I Crying as I was walking home, halfway there, I ran over to wait for you, and then you treated me like this. Yang Jian, my whole day was ruined, because your younger brother went to an Internet cafe and broke the net, and we were all ruined!"

"No one should use this umbrella at all!" As she spoke, she slammed the umbrella into a muddy puddle again.

Yang Jian's gaze swept over Li Bai, and seeing that he was still standing still, he looked back at You Lili's face.The rain and tears on that face could not be distinguished, and the appearance of trying to suppress sobs was extremely pitiful. He looked at it for a long time, and also remained silent for a long time, as if he was thinking, without much emotion, and then he suddenly Open the mouth: "If you insist on figuring it out, I actually think you are all quite annoying, but from now on, you have won."

You Lili's eyes widened, but Yang Jian continued: "And you just said that Li Bai went to the Internet cafe to surf the Internet. I was also thinking, why didn't he travel so far to Zhongguancun to surf the Internet without Cuiwei? He should have Go to work, I didn't have time to ask, do you know what's going on?"

"Okay, I understand. You don't want to explain anything, you're just questioning me." You Lili was shaking her clenched fists.

"You said what's going on." Yang Jian looked at Li Bai.

I?what's going on?Then of course I can tell—I looked through every window and imagined you were in there.Li Bai woke up suddenly, and his words were about to break through his tightly pursed lips. The last line of defense was that he didn't want to see You Lili collapse, and he didn't want to see Yang Jian embarrassed, but during the few seconds he hesitated, You Lili slapped Yang. She slapped her hand and ran away with her bag.Her wet hair hung down her back, and she was patted heavily on the red dress. Her back was lit up by the streetlights and she was in a mess. Yang Jian looked over quietly, a little helpless and a little indifferent, but Li Bai ran after her without saying a word. In two steps, Yang Jianti slipped back to the curb where he was standing just now.

"Running for what?" Yang Jian asked.

"I want to chase her back." Li Bai replied honestly.

"Why?" Yang Jian let go of his wrist and asked again.

"do not know."

This time Li Bai lied.

——Because I was angry, because she hit you, even though she looked pitiful, I hated her even more, I hated her so much that I didn't want to see her again, I wanted to die with her.

He himself knew that these words were very wrong and abnormal, so he closed his mouth tightly and didn't want to let it out.He was afraid that Yang Jian would ask about the afternoon again, and he would have to speak again, but Yang Jian didn't, nor did he pick up the folding umbrella in the puddle. For a taxi, he turned right at the intersection and led Li Bai past one streetlight after another.The road was empty, filled only with rain, and neither of them spoke, but the weight in the air that had accumulated in the police station, which seemed to squeeze Yang Jian into a tight string, was getting worse and worse. Li Bai seemed to be able to see It wrapped around Yang Jian, distorting the shape of the rain curtain.

Gradually, Li Bai felt that his underwear was drenched, and realized that this was the direction to the old family area crowded in the building.

Yang Jian is going to take him home.

"That, brother," Li Bai lifted the waistband of his trousers as the trousers were too soaked, "I have to go back and feed Xiao Hui!"

"Let's change into clean clothes." Yang Jian looked down at the road, "You can't get a taxi if you wait."

"Oh." Li Bai also lowered his head obediently, looking at the same ground as Yang Jian.Am I still annoying now?I am a responsibility that cannot be shaken off, because you are an older brother, and we are barely related.So how can I make you feel better and just disappear?He kept thinking.

But now it seems that what Yang Jian is most worried about is that he disappears, and he always turns around to ask him to follow, which makes Li Bai like him for a while, and hate him for a while.There was a section of the cement road that was crushed by earth moving trucks and there was serious water accumulation, and they all went over it together. Yang Jian was exploring the road ahead, and Li Bai grabbed his clothes.Later, the road was easier to walk. Although the rain never stopped, Lei also knocked on the dome, and the two "migrated" downstairs smoothly. Li Bai yelled and looked at the watch with the voice-activated light. One minute to three.

Maybe his sound was too much like "Wow", Yang Jian laughed at him like a puppy, and finally laughed, so Li Bai also laughed, sandwiched in the shadows between the voice-activated lights awakened by footsteps, he smiled shyly Shy, I'm not going away, never, he made up his mind.Climbing to the top floor and standing in front of the black-red anti-theft door, he mustered up the courage to knock on the door with Yang Jian again, "I didn't bring the key," Yang Jian said, raising his voice, "Sister!"

There was no one living in the opposite door, so no one came out to complain about disturbing the people, but there was no response from the family for a long time.The two of them had just clearly seen the bright windows downstairs, and there was more than one window, as if the lights in every room were on. According to Yang Jian, Yang Yuqiu would be afraid when she was alone at home, and often turned upside down day and night, but now she It was like falling asleep, in a deep sleep, and completely unresponsive.

Yang Jian took out his water-soaked Nokia and tapped it on the door frame. He dialed the number at home and waited quietly, but Li Bai watched his anxiety gradually piled up and always felt that he would call 120 next.Still no one answered, but finally there was some movement from the door. It seemed that Yang Yuqiu said "immediately", and the two listened attentively. After waiting for about 2 minutes, the door finally opened. He had just washed his face, but his cheeks were flushed, which reminded Li Bai of the unwashed faces of the actors he saw when he was helping in the art troupe.She was only wearing an ill-fitting long coat, and her legs were bare, blocking the doorway a little awkwardly.

"What's the matter?" She leaned her upper body out of the door, and asked almost angrily, "What are you two doing up in the middle of the night?"

Yang Jian was suddenly at a loss for words, his expression...surprise, humiliation, anger, hatred...maybe all mixed together, Li Bai could see it from the side.What's wrong.have no idea.Li Bai subconsciously held Yang Jian's hand hanging by his side, the phone almost slipped from his fingers, he pushed it back, but still didn't let go.

At the same time, he also saw more than one pair of high-end leather shoes placed on the foot pads next to the shoe cabinet. There was a burning fragrance in the air, and there was faint music playing, which floated outside the house as thin as mosquitoes and flies, mixed with some kind of chanting or singing, It seemed quiet and beautiful, but it made people feel inexplicably uncomfortable, and goose bumps arose all over their backs.

"You come with me, sister." Yang Jian's hand was cold, and the strength on Li Bai's knuckles trembled slightly, but it was very heavy. It was obvious that he was trying to hold his breath, and said in a low voice.

"Don't make trouble." Yang Yuqiu said with a cold face, "I'll help you get something you forgot at home, and if you don't, go back to school."

"Don't be afraid, don't even dare to walk!" Yang Jian insisted.

"Hush, what are you talking about!" Yang Yuqiu looked embarrassed, not only did she not let people in, she even started to push Yang Jian out, "Take your brother down quickly, hurry up!"

Yang Jian violently broke away from her, and instead pushed people into the room, her voice suddenly became high as a statement, "What did I say? I said you are willing, right? You think it's good to be their slave, plaything, and offering. There's no dignity at all, is there?"

Yang Yuqiu didn't answer, and the expression on her face also faded. She was concentrating on trying to push her brother out of the room completely, and the slippers made a sharp sound on the floor, "Xiaobai, pull him away!" She snapped, and Li Bai and her resist strength, to help Yang Jian.At the same time, there were noises behind him. The door of that mysterious room was opened at this moment, and a red shadow of candlelight emerged. Gao Jie stood there with his trousers pocket in his pocket, watching the chaos at the entrance coldly.

He was not the only one who came out of the room together with the smoke. Among them was a short man standing in the front, wearing a pure black old-fashioned Tang suit with a small white sleeve exposed, like an extraterrestrial expert, but his face was covered. A mask the size of a bull's head, crimson in color, with long horns and fangs, depicts a ferocious monster. There is a red patch in the hollow black mouth, like a broken tongue, but the person is leaning against Gao Jie's ear, as if whispering.

Li Bai felt the great danger in an instant, his back became colder, he changed his mind, and wanted to pull Yang Jian out again, at this moment, he heard Yang Yuqiu say flatly: "I have nothing, I am willing. "

The strength in Yang Jian's body suddenly loosened, or in other words, collapsed. From just now, he wanted to rush in to find a kitchen knife to cut people down, to step back speechlessly, staring blankly at the closed door. The process didn't take half a second.Then he dragged Li Bai involuntarily, almost tucking him under his arm and leaving quickly. They walked away from the door as if they were fleeing a scene of fire.Is Yang Jian afraid?No, Li Bai's judgment is very firm, but Yang Jian is in pain and despair, which he rarely reveals. It comes suddenly and completely, and he has no experience to cover it up. The string was broken, so Li Bai was no longer afraid of anything, and hugged his arm tightly, trying to do a little support.

The world downstairs was split into daylight for a few seconds by lightning. There was a black car parked beside the door. It was very inconspicuous. I didn't pay attention to it before I went upstairs, but now I could even see the license plate.Yang Jian walked out of the doorway, glanced at it by chance, and suddenly cursed, he pushed Li Bai away and kicked the nose of the car, continued to curse, shouted Gao Jie's name, the Mercedes was kicked out like an alarm bell , but the lights upstairs are still the same, and the windows are still tightly closed.The rain was so heavy that it seemed to be able to extinguish people's eyes, and it was difficult to look up, and only heard, but no one echoed.

And no one would heed the rage of a boy overwhelmed by lightning and thunder.

After a few minutes, Yang Jian calmed down by himself.He turned to Li Bai, watching in vain, panting.

"Scared you." He said hoarsely.

"No, brother," Li Bai held on all night, and just now tried to get closer and was pushed away several times. He tried to hold on, but almost burst into tears at this second, "I'm not afraid, not at all."

"Really."

"Really, I won't lie to you," Li Bai rushed over to hug him, "I just see you so sad, and I'm so sad too..."

Yang Jian's body froze for a moment, and he still let the frail embrace encircle him, "That's good." He said, "I won't have class tomorrow, so you can take me in for the night."

"Okay, okay, okay..." Li Bai kept agreeing.

Yang Jian suddenly laughed again, "Yes, we have nothing," his voice was very soft, "but it won't break any more. Absolutely not." He lowered his head and buried his cold face on Li Bai. neck fossa.