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What would it be like to meet Shen Qi again?

This is Zhou Jingtang's favorite thing to imagine many years ago. He can't help but think that when he meets Shen Qi again, he must be as handsome as before, or even more handsome than before. Say you look at Shen Muxi, Lao Tzu is still magnificent.

Later, thinking too much was still fruitless, time gradually erased the traces of the past, and also consumed a person's useless effort, he gradually stopped thinking about it.Later, he even felt that maybe seeing him again was a trivial matter.

How unrestrained Zhou Jingtang was back then, how badly he was bound by fate later on.The boy who was once nicknamed Mad Dog was finally strangled by his master with a rope and sent on a plane to a foreign country.

When he first arrived in Australia, Zhou Yanwu arranged for someone to follow him all the time, from going to school to going to the bathroom, and never leaving him.During that time, the feeling of being watched almost drove him crazy, but he didn't go crazy later, because he just sent the bodyguard beside him into the hospital.

That year, Zhou Jingtang was severely discriminated against the Chinese abroad, and he suffered a lot from the open and secret losses. Coupled with Zhou Yanwu's surveillance, that time really passed without a ray of sunshine.

For nearly a whole year, Zhou Jingtang would dream of Shen Qi every night in his dreams. Shen Qi in his dream was sometimes clear and sometimes blurred, sometimes gentle and sometimes cold. One second he smiled gently at him, and the next second he had a cold face. Ask him why he left without saying goodbye.In the end, he always wakes up from the dream, unable to distinguish the dream from the reality in the dark, half dreaming and half awake making promises to the empty air in front of him.

He said, I will definitely come back to you.

One day in a deep alley in Australia, Zhou Jingtang walked into a tattoo parlor run by a Chinese.

He has a tree tattooed on the back of his neck.

The Chinese boss asked him: "Why do you want to tattoo a tree?"

He said, "Because a tree has branches."

He said: "I like a person, I want to let him have a branch to live in."

"I want to give him a home."

In the end, news about the tattoo reached Zhou Yanwu, but Zhou Jingtang didn't answer when he called.To be precise, after being sent to Australia, Zhou Jingtang never spoke to Zhou Yanwu again.

After going abroad, he lost contact with everyone in the country, his mobile phone number was changed to a local number in Australia, and his circle of friends was completely wiped out.Maybe this is what Zhou Yanwu wanted too, to stay away from those cronies in China.

Life in Australia is very difficult, Zhou Jingtang is busy with his studies, he no longer accepts Zhou Yanwu's money, every penny is earned by himself doing part-time jobs, and he works part-time jobs all over the city during his spare time.Later, he partnered with a white friend to start a business. At that time, the trendy shoe market had not yet opened. He and his white friend stocked up on shoes and sold them to young people in the college. After half a year, he made a lot of money.

In the third year after going to Australia, Zhou Yanwu withdrew the people who were arranged by his side.It was also this year that Zhou Jingtang bought a plane ticket back to China after he was able to breathe.

Zhou Jingtang returned to China after two years, and his heart was like an arrow. He got off the airport in Jincheng, but bought a train ticket to Liucheng.This year, Liucheng's airport had just started to be built and hadn't been used yet, so the train journey took several times longer.

When he arrived in Liucheng, Zhou Yanwu arranged for someone to stop him. The two cars followed the taxi and chased him.

Zhou Yanwu said to him on the phone: "Either go back to Australia, or die in Liucheng."

Zhou Jingtang felt that he was holding a breath in his heart. Ever since he was forced to leave Shen Qi, he felt that his breathing had never been smooth.He gritted his teeth and said to Zhou Yanwu on the phone: "Remember, your son died in Liucheng today."

Putting down the phone, he opened the car door and jumped out without hesitation.

There was a sound of sudden braking in the traffic flow, followed by the sound of rows of cars rear-ending, and countless vehicles stopped one after another.

When Zhou Jingtang was sent to the hospital, he was covered in blood, with extensive abrasions, severe concussion, and multiple fractures.If the rear vehicle did not brake in time at that time, the consequences would be even more serious.

When Zhou Yanwu rushed to Liucheng Hospital, he was so angry that he threw the doctor's medical certificate on his hospital bed, and said to him, "I'm not dead, right? If I'm not dead, I'll go back to Australia."

Zhou Jingtang was seriously injured, and when he was in a daze, he could only vaguely remember his mother, Mu Yalan, lying beside his hospital bed and crying sobbingly.

When he woke up again, he was already in Australia.

Zhou Yanwu put him in a little-known nursing home in Australia and never took care of him again, nor did he have anyone monitor him.After nearly a year of rehabilitation, Zhou Jingtang just recovered, and he still didn't forget about his business with his white friends, making money while recuperating.

That should be the most difficult time for him right now. He was alone in a nursing home in a foreign country, fighting with Tian, ​​Zhou Yanwu, and fate. He gritted his teeth and stood up from the sick bed, telling himself that since If he survived, he would crawl back to Shen Qi's side even if he crawled in this life.

Later, after he was discharged from the hospital, he developed in Australia for more than a year, and finally returned to China in 2006.

A friend asked him: "Isn't it good to stay here? Why do you have to go back?"

When he said this, Zhou Jingtang was lying on the sofa reading a magazine, and he couldn't help touching the back of his neck when he heard the words. There was a tree there.

He smiled and said, "Go back to your roots."

Zhou Jingtang returned to China in the winter of 2006. When he came out of the airport, the cold wind in Jincheng made him upset. After he settled his luggage in the hotel, he took a taxi to Ning Zhe's villa.

This year, Ning Zhe is a senior. He majored in finance at Jincheng Business School. He has been an intern in his family's company for nearly two years. When he received a call from his servant at home, he and Lin Yuan were having fun in a high-end club. Hearing Zhou Jingtang's name, he thought he was dreaming.

Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan haven't driven such a fast car for many years. The last time they drove so fast was with Zhou Jingtang. Later, after Zhou Jingtang drove his car through the guardrail, the two lived peacefully for many years.On the way to find Zhou Jingtang, the two of them didn't say a word, and their faces were extremely cold.

That Zhou Jingtang who died without saying a word four years ago was sitting wrapped in a coat in the living room of Ning's house. After Ning Zhe entered the door, he picked up the vase on the porch cabinet and threw it at Zhou Jingtang's. feet.

"You're awesome. It's been four years. Why don't you just die abroad?" Ning Zhe was so angry that his eyes turned red, "If you want to go abroad, tell us that you will die, right? He and Lin Yuan will accompany you to Liucheng without saying a word, if you want to go abroad, you tell us, do you think we will not accompany you?"

"You should give me a call in four years!"

"Isn't the moon round in foreign countries?"

Ning Zhe was impatient, and seeing that he was about to make a move, Lin Yuan grabbed him, sat opposite Zhou Jingtang, and asked him, "Tell me, what's going on? We went to your house to ask about your situation, and your parents didn't know deal with us."

Zhou Jingtang said: "I went abroad, my dad escorted me on the plane, and no one had time to contact me."

"How could your father..."

"He knows that I like Shen Qi, so he can't accept that I'm gay," Zhou Jingtang said calmly.

Zhou Jingtang looked calm, but his words sounded like thunder on the ground to Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan. They suddenly looked at each other, speechless for a long time.

Zhou Jingtang said: "I want to find Shen Qi, is he still in touch with you?"

It took several seconds for Lin Yuan to regain his senses, and asked him in disbelief, "You...you...don't you hate Shen Qi?"

"Why do I hate Shen Qi?" Zhou Jingtang couldn't understand.

Lin Yuan was a little confused, and said: "Back then, we all knew that Shen Qi was a boy. I called you, but you hung up the phone without saying anything... I thought you couldn't accept it. You hate him for lying to you. ..."

It has been too long, and Zhou Jingtang can no longer remember what happened to the phone call that Lin Yuan said. When he returned to Jincheng, Mr. Mu was seriously ill, so there is no need for a phone call...

"I don't know what the phone number is," Zhou Jingtang said, "My grandfather passed away at that time, I didn't notice..."

Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe looked at each other, and suddenly understood something in their hearts.

"Shen Qi is a boy thing, I knew it before all of you," Zhou Jingtang said, "I like him, I have always liked him, and I have never hated him."

"You always knew..." Ning Zhe couldn't believe it.

Zhou Jingtang asked: "Do you know where Shen Qi is now?"

Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe panicked for a while, and they didn't speak for a while.After a while, Lin Yuan hesitated, and said, "We...we all misunderstood..."

"What's wrong?"

Ning Zhe sighed: "We all thought you hated Shen Qi to death."

Zhou Jingtang's heart skipped a beat, and an ominous premonition became stronger and stronger, "And then..."

Lin Yuan said: "After you left, there was a security guard at the school who wanted to take advantage of Shen Qi. The teacher took a few classmates to rescue Shen Qi, but found... that Shen Qi was a boy. Later everyone hated Shen Qi, everyone... ...Everyone said he was a perverted hooligan, pretending to be a girl to...to take advantage of other girls..."

Zhou Jingtang's heart tightened, and he asked hoarsely, "What happened next?"

Lin Yuan said: "Later, the whole class ganged up to bully him, and the worst thing was...it was..."

"What is it?" Zhou Jingtang asked as if masochistic.

Lin Yuan couldn't finish his sentence, Ning Zhe answered, and said, "It's not just your class, the whole school knows about it, some boys locked Shen Qi in the toilet and beat him, and... stripped his clothes. People from several classes upstairs saw it. Later, Shen Qi jumped from the window of the toilet."

Zhou Jingtang could hardly believe his ears, he stood up as if being pricked by a needle, his eyes were full of disbelief.

"Shen Qi seemed to have broken a bone later, and then dropped out of school," Lin Yuan said, "After dropping out of school, he lost contact with everyone."

Zhou Jingtang took a few deep breaths, he felt as if a boulder had been pressed against his chest, and he was almost out of breath.I don't know how long it took, his eyes turned red, and his eyes fell on Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe like knives, and he asked word by word: "What about you?"

He said: "When I left, I asked you to take care of him. That's how you took care of him? When he was bullied, you two died?"

"Ang? Are you two dead?"

Ning Zhe got up to defend himself: "Who the hell knows you still like him!"

As soon as the words fell, Ning Zhe felt pain on his face, and he was punched firmly by Zhou Jingtang, bringing him directly to the ground.Zhou Jingtang's eyes were red with anger, and he went up to mend a few feet without hesitation.

Ning Zhe was taken aback by the beating. If Lin Yuan hadn't reacted quickly to stop him, he felt that Zhou Jingtang really wanted to beat him to death.

"Zhou Jingtang, you are fucking sick. At that time, no one could find you, and you couldn't get through the phone." Lin Yuan was so angry that he hit Zhou Jingtang when he got into a fight, "You knew that Shen Qi was a man, you knew If you don't tell me, if you don't tell me, Ning Zhe and I don't know what the hell you mean? Who knows what the hell you are thinking!"

"How could you leave him alone?"

"How can you leave him alone?"

"How can it be?"

Zhou Jingtang's tears finally ran out while talking, the number of times he has cried since he was a child is one of the few, but today he really broke down, he thought he could find Shen Qi when he came back, he thought so!

The three of them got into a fight in the living room, they didn't care who was right and who was wrong, and they didn't even care who they were hitting, they were all angry.At the end of the fight, he lay exhausted on a messy floor, whose blood was no longer discernible on the dregs of the vase.

The first night Zhou Jingtang returned to China was spent in the hospital in Jincheng. Next door lay Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe, both of whom were no less seriously injured than him.After the night calmed down, Zhou Jingtang couldn't fall asleep amid Ning Zhe's howling ghosts and howling wolves.

After dawn, Ning Zhe leaned on the nurse, pushed the infusion stand and appeared at the door of his ward, with a bruised nose and a swollen face, and asked him, "Niu or you, Zhou Shaoniu, who has been away for four years and has not heard from you for four years. When you come back, you will be sent to the brothers' hospital." Three-day tour."

Zhou Jingtang didn't sleep all night, and he didn't have much strength in his body. He raised his eyelids to see that he didn't have any strength, so he just turned his face away and closed his eyes to rest his mind.

Ning Zhe spat at him, and dragged the body away again.

When he was discharged from the hospital three days later, Lin Yuan grabbed his car door and asked him, "Is it true that you don't want brothers anymore?"

Zhou Jingtang looked at him, he really hated Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe, but he couldn't say no, because these were the brothers who grew up with him, they handed bricks when he hit someone, and they dared to hand over their lives when he raced give him.But he couldn't forgive them for watching Shen Qi being bullied so coldly.

Zhou Jingtang got into the car.

Ning Zhe chased him a few steps, and shouted loudly from behind his car: "Zhou Jingtang, you'll be fine for a day, a month, or a year."

"Don't really want brothers."

Zhou Jingtang didn't know that Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan also felt guilty all these years. They went to find Shen Xi after he dropped out of school, and they thought about apologizing.They shouldn't stand on the sidelines, it has nothing to do with whether Shen Xi is someone Zhou Jingtang likes, but Shen Xi used to look at them with those impeccable eyes and said that's great, you are my friends.

They thought about making up for it, but as of today, they are already powerless.