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"Not really, but it can be seen that he is very short of money, but it seems that this is not what he really cares about." Li Li put down the teacup, pinned the loose hair behind his ear, and flipped the crescent moon "I don't have such a man around me. Even if there is a man who is short of money, he still pretends to be rich to pursue me, so I think...he is special? Probably because of this."

Seeing that Li Bai was silent, she smiled again: "You don't believe me? I can list the phone numbers of those men."

Li Bai's fingertips rested on a brown-black crack. The tea had already worn off, and he didn't dip in a new one. He continued to write and draw on the log table.Lifting his eyelids, he looked over with a serious look: "But don't you like women?"

Slender eyebrows raised, Li Li whispered "ah", but the surprise quickly faded, "Actually, this is one of the things I wanted to talk about when I came to you today, and I haven't figured out how to say it just now." She raised her brows softly, "It's not easy to explain clearly, can you give me a little more time? Let's talk about how you just ran over panting—did you just go to the police station?"

"En." Li Bai's eyes returned to his hands, which made him more comfortable.

"Before you asked me out yesterday, the police hadn't found me yet," he said.

"What did they ask you for?" Li Li put a piece of rock sugar in the cup, and then poured another cup of tea, and the abundant and warm fragrance of flowers escaped from the mouth of the cup.

Li Bai thought, what to do?What do you want me to answer?Said that the police put a slippery ID photo in front of me and told me that this person jumped to his death, and asked me what I knew?Said that I told them with a look of horror that I only knew that he often kept a lot of incense sticks and paper tickets at home for storage, and he was always talking about it, always saying that the fire rose to heaven?Or, there are two police officers in their bureau who have taken notes with me before, and they also have an impression of the layout of the room, so I am not fooling people?

Anyway, they were all lit and burned to ashes, so in the photos taken at the scene, only the charred walls can be seen.

The body that fell to the ground had only contusions and fractures caused by the fall, and was neatly dressed, with no signs of struggle.

At present, the police concluded that the indoor incense candles fell and ignited the shrine, floor mats, hanging picture blankets, and then spread to electric wires and appliances, resulting in an explosive fire.At the same time, Gao Jie has a recorded history of taking psychotropic drugs, and the possibility of his anxiety attack during the fire cannot be ruled out, so he chose the wrong way of escape.

"My condolences." Before leaving, they said to Li Bai.

Li Bai left with a sad face.

After walking through an intersection, he started running, laughing while running, his breath was so relieved, he hadn't been able to breathe so freely for a long time!When I ran to this teahouse and saw Li Li, the slate on my chest was immediately pushed back.

What they can talk about is Yang Jian.

Have the police found Yang Jian?Li Bai began to ponder again, only wishing that the answer was yes.

He stared straight at Li Li, as if he was staring at him, "Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to inquire about your personal affairs," Li Li waved his hand, "Even when my father met him a few days ago, he also mentioned that he I just took the notes, so I was late for a while... It seems that another person jumped off the building? It is also someone he knows."

Oh, I see.Li Bai almost laughed.The answer came really fast.So you have also passed the test, he thought about Yang Jian's appearance when he was questioned in the same seat as himself.

Is it too easy?

No, it was simply too difficult.

Putting his other hand under the table, Li Bai unconsciously squeezed the satchel tightly, and remembered that the envelope was no longer here, and he hid it by himself.

"He still met your father?" he asked back.

"Yeah, after that happened, my dad still admires him very much and wants to have a heart-to-heart chat with him." The rock sugar had already melted in the tea, Li Li drooped his eyelashes, and took a small sip. Running away crying is just for them to see, I just want to act like other girls, how would they react when my husband kissed a man bloody at the wedding...Are my acting skills too exaggerated?"

Li Bai smiled.This woman admitted her hypocrisy and promiscuity very frankly.It's just that he didn't pay attention to her reaction at all.

"Don't talk about that day, don't talk about it, don't be too uncomfortable," Li Li seemed to understand this smile as a wry smile, paying attention to any change in Li Bai's face, "I just think it's a pity, in fact, me and him I’ve said it, and I’ve said it several times, saying that we’re just passing the wedding, and when my parents return to Shenzhen, he can bring you to live with him at home, it’s fine, but he just refuses…for the last time He also got angry with me, saying that it was his own business, and he didn't want to drag other people, so I didn't mention it again. He didn't tell you about this, did he?"

"..." Li Baikong opened his mouth, but made no sound.

"Thinking about it now, if he agreed then, maybe it would have been a different situation?" Li Li poured the old tea into the grate and poured half a cup for Li Baixin, "I don't know you too well, ask him It's always been a few perfunctory words, as if between the two of you...he doesn't want me to know, and he doesn't want anyone to know. "

"It's a very private and special feeling." She finally concluded.

"You just said that you were just going through the motions?" Li Bai asked suddenly.

"Ah?" Li Li was surprised, she looked at the pale face in front of her, and said cautiously, "This...don't you know?"

Li Bai lowered his head silently, he didn't want to cry, he didn't want to laugh, he just tensed the corners of his jaw, wanting to fight coldly.He heard the "click" of teeth.

"I see." Li Li also looked very sad, or rather, sighed, "Oh, actually, your brother, how to put it, is just an actor I found. It's all caused by me... During the Chinese New Year I was a little careless in Shenzhen, and my father suspected my sexual orientation again. I was a little annoyed by the question. Seeing that my father liked him very much, I thought he was very suitable. After a few months of simple research, I found that he seemed eager Putting patents into production, the most lacking thing is funds. It happens that my dad has funds and investment intentions. I chatted with him, and he was at the simple restaurant next to him. He is very smart, and he understood what I was talking about immediately. It’s a hit and miss.”

"We signed a lot of prenuptial agreements, and we also agreed not to interfere with each other. If he insisted on it three years later, he can divorce me, and now they are all void," Li Li squinted and recalled, "But about a month before the marriage, my mother died. When I come, I have to trouble him to accompany me more. After getting in touch with me, I realized that he is actually a very unhappy person, and he is also really indifferent. He can be very gentle and careful with you, and can spend a lot of time on you. Satisfy everyone around you, but you will always know clearly that this is just what he should do, and you are not the one who can make him happy. Fortunately, I only like girls, and I will not fall in love with him, fortunately !"

Li Bai listened intently all the time, but at some point, he raised his head again and became very calm.

"Lack of investment," he said, "if you don't get married, isn't your dad going to invest in him?"

"This..." Li Li said slowly, thoughtfully, "After the accident, I felt so uncomfortable for the past few days, especially about my sister... I think he is really miserable, and I was the one who picked it." Part of the reason is that he seems to have lost everything, and if his career is also ruined, I can't figure out how this person can survive."

Seeing Li Bai's flickering eyes that were about to stay still, she said again: "I hesitated for a long time, but I still told my dad the real situation. I didn't expect my dad to understand it already! He told me, saying that he The only reason I want to get married is to silence my relatives and friends... Our side still cares about reputation, and most people are particularly disgusted with homophobia. As for my private life, he doesn't want to care about it. He thinks I'm looking for this The person is very suitable. He doesn't want to affect his business judgment because of this accident."

"What do you mean?"

"That is to say, in fact, the board of directors of the company has made a research and decision. It is really good to invest the money in the project of 3T Studio. His prospect is really good, but I didn't know it before...even if something happened later, my dad would not I plan to discuss it again and change the investment plan," Li Li paused, "so he asked Yang Jian to talk and told him the decision, and I was also beside me... My father is rarely so patient, and he feels that he really cherishes a child. That's why he is like this. He told Yang Jian not to listen to those outside discussions, and not to worry about the chores in life. He would help to settle them. He asked Yang Jian to go to Shenzhen to work with him with his mind and skills. "

Li Bai's eyes lit up, as if he had witnessed how he once pushed a good piece of porcelain off the high platform, and now finally saw some possibility of putting it back together again.

"Has he gone?"

But Li Li said: "Yang Jian doesn't take care of himself. There is no way."

"what?"

Li Li watched the light gradually dim, and said: "Yang Jian refused. He said that he no longer needs to make money, so he might as well live a little more freely and do ordinary good deeds."

"Do good deeds?" Li Bai had already stood up, but he didn't know that.

"He handed over the patent rights to his partner in mid-October, and he didn't ask for a penny." Li Li rubbed the center of his brows, and his bean paste-colored nails flashed softly, "Where in Sichuan and Tibet? He is going to support education Well, we met four days ago, and we said at that time that we would leave in two days."

"Sichuan Tibet... where exactly?" Li Bai thought of the teacher qualification certificate, which Yang Jian had obtained in his sophomore year of university. Yang Jian always liked to take the certificate that seemed useless at the time.It was the event that hurt him the most at the moment for no reason.

"I didn't say it carefully," Li Li also stood up. Seeing Li Bai clutching the satchel, she thought he was going to leave, "But I also figured it out. Everyone has their own plans, right? Although others may not understand, but since It's his own decision, and no one else has the right to say 'I don't accept it'. For example, my goal in the future... probably is to graduate from graduate school and then find a man who is not interested in me to marry? I hope he is no worse than Yang Jian! What about you? , what are you going to do in the future?"

"... just to make money, I have to continue to make money," Li Bai really left, he turned his back and walked quickly with his sleeves covering his eyelids, he didn't know if others could hear him clearly with such a voice and speed, "make money If you have enough money, go to him, and look for him while earning.”

When you find it, take a look, just take a few glances.

He didn't want to and didn't dare to say that.

After returning home that day—to be precise, in the newly rented basement, Li Bai squatted on his red sofa that had been stained by a cheap moving company, and read the paper in the envelope for the last time.

There are a total of 29 sheets, 28 of which are blueprints, and some of them have been scalded with small black holes, and the outer circle is crumpled, which is the result of emergency rescue by splashing water.Those that need to be sawed, welded, and clearly designed, are surrounded by densely packed labels, and waste drawings with big red crosses are squeezed next to them... These designs even include hardware and software. The signing date of the circuit diagram is October [-]th.

Yang Yuqiu announced that the rescue was invalid that night.

That picture probably describes a projection device, people who enter the room will see the image of Yang Yuqiu on the wall, or is it just a vague woman?Yang Jian's effect hint is just to draw her hair very long.

And this projection is only a small part of this device, Yang Jian seems to have considered all possibilities, what if Gao Jie does not enter that room, what if he enters that room and stands in the wrong position, what if the induction fails, What if the sensor is too sensitive to start the process early.

He seems to have done several simulation experiments, and recorded the experimental results in detail. He used the circuit chip as a backup device, and even modified the two statues. When he completed one thing, he put a checkmark next to the date of completion of the picture.He created an inescapable maze within this square inch. No matter how he chooses the path, he can only reach the end point he set...Gao Jie is a mouse placed under a glass cover.This is Li Bai's conclusion.Over the past few days, he has repeatedly read those blueprints, read Yang Jian's scribbled notes and records, and kept reading until he could memorize the blueprints. The effect when the size of the design is put into practice.

Gao Jie's god statue will split automatically, breaking into a pile of dregs in front of Gao Jie, and his shrine will also collapse, burning the silk cushions on which he knelt down, burning the golden paper sesame oil in the cabinet, and the picture of the sun and moon gods hanging on the wall. It will be blackened, and Yang Yuqiu's figure will loom again, and the door behind him will be closed with a bang, and the mahogany will reflect the color of the raging fire.

He would scream, he would cry, he would have a nervous breakdown.Then jump downstairs.

This is the simplest one that Yang Jian expected. What if it’s not just the red mask that accompanied him? What if Gao Jie insisted on waiting for him downstairs and pulling him up with him... Yang Jian drew a tree diagram, Even these are all discussed coping methods.

But the simplest just happened.

Just like Yang Yuqiu jumped from a four-story bell tower and was able to fall to pieces and die right there, such a coincidence, such a coincidence.

God, after being cruel for so long, suddenly changed his habit and became righteous for a while?

As soon as Li Bai thought about it, he would lose his strength.

He knew very well that he was going through them for the last time. The nine sheets of No.20 are relatively empty, with three dead characters written on them and crossed out with a red pen.They are like Yang Jian's hesitation, how much hesitation and how long it takes to decide to kill a person.

Li Bai always felt that he hadn't made this decision until October [-]th.

But it was not until this day that Li Bai realized that there was such a large 2 written on the envelope, so what is the corresponding 1? There should be, there must be.

On the first piece of paper, a long axis was drawn, starting from April and ending at the end of the year. It seemed that after a while, Yang Jian painted a part of the axis black.What kind of deadline is this? Li Bai can already guess roughly, but no matter what, it's like this—Yang Jianben has another way to go.

It was the one he blocked.

Yang Jianben will have a lot, but not to mention the future, just what he had in the past seems to be lost now.

Even Li Li felt ashamed for this.

Li Bai put the envelope and the thick stack of white paper on his knees, and found the medicine bottle from the crack of the sofa. There was no water, so he chewed it up and swallowed dryly.

The medicine took effect quickly, and Li Bai's hands stopped trembling, and he shook the paper to make a rattling sound.He turned the paper over again, and there were two lines written on the back of the No. 20 nine sheets, signed on October [-]th, the font was reversed from the previous mess, it was written with a pen, and the pen was still as sharp as a blade:

If you come to me today, I'll give it to you.

If you can't take it anymore, take it to the police.

Li Bai stroked these two lines lightly as if visiting an old friend. Yang Jian must have written with great force, and he could feel the tiny indentation left by the pen tip with his fingertips.He kissed them with his lips.The paper was warm, "A farewell gift." "You can do whatever you want with it." The words were still in my ears.Hearing enough, he pulled out the newly bought iron basin from under the sofa, threw the envelopes in, picked up the paper on his lap, and tore it up one by one starting from No.20.

He didn't stop, he tore very quickly, the basement was not ventilated, and the space was so small that he could only fit the sofa. Li Bai was afraid of burning out the oxygen, so he climbed up to the top floor of this old office building with a basin in his hand. , Pour half a bottle of wine into the basin and throw a match.

boom.The flames rose instantly.

Li Bai looked at the shredded paper curled up under the tongue of fire, guilt, remorse, those countless things, can they just be turned into ashes.He closed his eyes, but he could still clearly recall the content of each picture.How could he be so hateful, he thought again, what is more terrible than hatred is missing, it can penetrate deeper, if the thinking is unbearable, can I send this head to the police station.Will you be happy.The result so far is not even calculated by your dendrogram, then have you ever regretted it?

Are you thinking of me too.

He lit a cigarette with the tip of the fire, watched the sunset, and smoked one puff at a time.The wine and paper in this pot burned too fast, far less than the phoenix tail that night, and when they were all burned, the cigarettes hadn't been smoked, and the sun hadn't set on the western mountain.

It didn't take long for Li Bai to pack his travel bag. A TV drama crew far away in Qinghai is currently short of manpower and is willing to hire him as a cheap job. Sister Linda gave him one last chance, telling him to hurry up.

Li Bai accepted it with a good attitude, kept saying thank you, and set off the next day.

That was the No.12 day of December.

He knows that filming a TV series is a kind of endurance work that can take up to a year and a half at a time. He still has [-] to [-] yuan in his deposit. He wants to earn more money. Just take a look at it from a distance, never look too much, never bother, if you can't find it, the money is running out, and he will make a new one.

This seems like a round-robin scheme that could be implemented.

But Sichuan-Tibet is still too big... Li Bai leaned against the train window, he thought a little funny, he is also near Sichuan-Tibet now, so can we meet by chance.The sunlight was cut into sections by tunnels that reminded him of blacked-out long shafts.He suddenly felt that he had to accept the fact that it would take him a lifetime to find Yang Jian.

Just then, Luo Ping'an called.

Li Bai stared at the caller ID and pondered for a few seconds, then pressed the answer button, the singing of "My hit hit" stopped, and a rough male voice came to his ears:

"Why did Yang Jian disappear? Do you have his new phone number?"

"No."

"Damn, I really want to run away from home!" Luo Ping'an said sadly, "Do you know when you changed your number?"

"I never called him."

Luo Pingan yelled "It's strange", and asked Li Bai what he was busy with recently. Li Bai expressed that he didn't want to talk about it in silence. There was a bar called "Lan Tang", and the brothers were afraid that Yang Jian would be unhappy all day long, so they found some fun for him in it.

"Just that kid, she really looks like you, especially the red mole under the left eye, it's perfect! It's all in the same place, her hair is long, dyed silver, and her thighs are exposed like a little girl , is much more foreign than you," Luo Ping'an's tone was a bit gloating, "The bar was only found after a few inquires for a long time, and there were all men in it. It's a pervert, and I really met such a stunner. I saw your brother's photo, and I was very willing. I said, don't worry about me, and I won't talk about it. Let's call him and say you are here , someone bullied you after drinking too much, we stopped him, but you cried and shouted to find him, so he really took a taxi from Haidian!"

"Fuck your mother!" Li Bai scolded, and was glared at by the woman next to her with a child.

It seems that the signal was also deterred by the yelling, and it was intermittent for a while, and a complete sentence was sent back after a tunnel, "Buzzing for so long, your signal is not good? Hey, it's uncomfortable to hear, isn't it? Don’t be an asshole before you feel uncomfortable! Speaking of what happened that time... Oh, yes, we thought about waiting for Yang Jian to come over, thinking about beating us up and down, it’s better than half dead, who knows He smiled at us, as if he had a good temper, and went up to the bar with his arms around the beauty, and then we left, so we can't spoil the big brother's good deeds!" Luo Pingan paused, as if he was finally a little embarrassed, "But you Brother later got angry and left again. He met Yifa Xiaoer, just Zhao Weizong, you remember, he also came here for a drink and was given tofu, and the two of them beat up a few big guys to the hospital! You also got involved in the game, and after finishing it in the middle of the night, your brother ran back to Lantang again, his nosebleed was still bleeding, he grabbed the beauty and left."

"In the end, guess what? He dragged people down the road until dawn! He was in the front and the beauty was in the back. He was crying all the way, without saying a word, passing one hotel after another, not going in. Damn, Yang Jian cried out Shenger, I can't think of this scene!" Luo Ping'an seemed to slap his thigh, which meant he was excited, "The beauty called me later and scolded me, saying that I introduced this guy wrongly, and let him buy a bottle of whiskey." Walked like a donkey all night, he is handsome, but he has a sick mind, he didn't respond when he wrapped his neck, he is not a fierce and wild one at all! Say he is the worst lover."

"I'm wronged too. I stopped calling Yang Jian, and didn't tell me when I changed the number! Do you think this matter has provoked him, and he doesn't want to talk to me like he doesn't want to talk to you?"

Li Bai finally listened enough, and hung up on the flamboyant thoughts. It was prickling just now, but now his ears are clear again.

Luo Ping'an has a problem with his brain.He's used to it.

Oops?He thought again, it's actually quite right, this kind of lover will hide in the deep mountains, making a one-sided meeting a distant luxury, but it's also mine, it's for me.

The red mole is mine so the tears are mine.

The slaps on the face of the drawing sleeping pills are all mine.

Li Bai let out a sigh of relief, and drew a few strokes on the glass. Once he passed through the tunnel and got into the belly of the mountains, the small pair of foggy scissors became clear under the light.

My worst lover, he smiled, I must find you.