South of Chutian

Tang Heng was the only one left in the teaching and research room. He got up and closed the door tightly, then sat down and dialed Li Yuechi's number.

He deleted this string of numbers a long time ago, but he remembered it without any accidents, like a guitar pick in a drawer, which is not used on weekdays, but can be found accurately when needed.This thought made Tang Heng feel frustrated, so when the phone was connected, his tone was a little unhappy, looking fierce: "Li Yuechi, where are you?"

Li Yuechi was silent for two seconds: "I'm at school."

"You come to the teaching and research room, which is the same teaching and research room as last time."

"What's up?"

"Yes, there is something to do." Tang Heng spoke a little fast, he thought it was because of nervousness, "You come now."

"Can't you talk on the phone?"

"No."

Li Yuechi let out a "hmm" and hung up the phone.Tang Heng stared at the EXCEL form on the computer screen, wondering what did he mean by "hmm"?Are you coming or not?But no matter what, he wanted to see Li Yuechi.

Fourteen minutes later, someone knocked on the door of the teaching and research room.Tang Heng opened the door and met Li Yuechi's gaze.There were a few lines of sweat on his forehead, and his lips were peeled and tended to be chapped.Tang Heng looked away and said, "Close the door."

Li Yuechi closed the door cooperatively and asked, "What's the matter?"

He was carrying a backpack, and he didn't even sit down, as if he was going to leave immediately.Tang Heng asked back, "Are you in a hurry?"

"Yes," Li Yuechi said, "I'm going to class."

"The remedial class?"

"Ah."

"How much do they pay you a month?"

"Based on class hours," Li Yuechi frowned, "What's the matter?"

"Don't go to class, I will pay you three times the salary, and you finish this project."

"..."

"Do you know Pan Peng? He said that you quit the project team because you thought your salary was too low."

Li Yuechi stood still and didn't speak, as if acquiescing.

"It's your job. Quit if you say quit? I'll give you the money, and you can finish it." Tang Heng picked up the VANS canvas bag on the chair, which was scattered with banknotes and coins, and a piece of paper. Bank card.Tang Heng grabbed out the banknotes, fifty and one hundred, and threw them on the table one by one: "Pay tomorrow's salary first, do you think it's enough?"

Li Yuechi looked at the colorful banknotes with a blank expression on his face.

"Isn't that enough?" Tang Heng took out his bank card, "Then come with me to withdraw the money, and you can get it at school."

"Student," he finally said, "it's boring for you to do this."

"I just don't want to take over this mess, what's interesting or not," Tang Heng said indifferently, "I'm not giving you money for nothing, or borrowing money, or hiring you to work, understand?"

"Isn't your girlfriend in a hurry to spend money?" Tang Heng continued, "It's good for us."

Li Yuechi was silent again.

Tang Heng picked up a carbon pen and slowly turned it between his fingers. After waiting like this for a while, he heard Li Yuechi whisper, "I'll go back and think about it."

"I'll give you two days to think about it. It's [-]:[-] in the afternoon. Don't overtime." Tang Heng's tone was almost cheerful.

Li Yuechi left directly.

The sound of closing the door was a bit loud.

As soon as he left, he took the few joys with him.Tang Heng turned off the computer, picked up the canvas bag, and went downstairs.He stood in the shade of a tree and dialed Tian Xiaoqin's number. The sun was shining in the afternoon, but his face sank like water.

"Sister, I want to ask you something."

"Ah? Then you...you wait a moment." Tian Xiaoqin said softly, as if surprised.

About half a minute later, An Yun's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Tang Heng, what are you doing?"

"...are you together?"

"Just saw the art exhibition." An Yun paused, "You've had a firecracker, so fierce."

Is it fierce?Tang Heng said, "I'm looking for Tian Xiaoqin."

"What are you doing, don't scare Xiaoqin!"

"I asked something."

"you--"

"I said, I'm looking for Tian Xiaoqin."

An Yun cursed "fuck" in a low voice, and gave Tian Xiaoqin the phone.

"Senior sister, tell me the truth, why did Li Yuechi quit?"

"It's just...he seems to say that the wages here are too low..."

"Low wages?" Very good, it seems that the caliber has been unified in advance.

"Well, it's only 800 yuan a month."

"If you don't tell the truth, I'll ask Mr. Tang, or Dean Zhang—Zhang Jianlong, right?" Tang Heng smiled, "I'm at school right now, and I'll go to the School of Economics right away."

"Tang Heng!"

"Then you tell me."

"We...we can't do anything about it," Tian Xiaoqin's voice suddenly softened, showing a bit of bewilderment, "I did a good job, but the project was suddenly given to the School of Economics, and there were only two places for us. ..."

"Aren't you and Li Yuechi just two people?"

"He said that you need this quota. When you apply to go abroad, you should write the project in your resume..."

This time it was Tang Heng's turn to curse: "Fuck."

That was just an excuse he made up at will to make Li Yuechi accept his money.The title of a project is really nothing to him.

He didn't expect Li Yuechi to take it seriously.

"Happy? Satisfied?" An Yun snatched the phone over again, "This is the end of the matter, don't worry about it anymore!"

"I don't need this," Tang Heng's voice softened a little, "the quota is originally for Li Yuechi."

"You... Hey, just wait, I'll talk to you face to face tomorrow," An Yun sighed, "This matter is not as simple as you think."

Tang Heng replied "Okay" and simply hung up the phone.He suddenly felt stuffy, and the humid sunlight of Wuhan stuck to his skin, steaming out drops of sweat.Tang Heng walked briskly downstairs to his own house, got on the transmission bike, and drove towards Li Yuechi's rental house.He also couldn't explain why he wanted to go, Li Yuechi was obviously not at home at this time - the remedial class was in session.But it doesn't matter, he thought, he can wait.

On the way, I received another call from An Yun, who seemed worried about him: "Tang Heng, you didn't cause trouble, did you?"

"Not yet," Tang Heng pedaled slowly, "but you'd better give me a reasonable explanation."

"No, you... how do you know?"

"Is it hard to guess?" Tang Heng sneered, and Pan Peng's seemingly sincere expression appeared in front of his eyes, "A fool told me that Li Yuechi quit the job because he thought he was short of money, do you think it's possible? ?”

"Li Yuechi is really short of money," An Yun said helplessly, "Pan Peng said it."

"He is short of money, but if he really does everything for money..."

"what?"

He won't refuse my money again and again.Tang Heng thought.

"It's nothing, we'll talk about it tomorrow when we meet."

"Don't be impulsive!" An Yun repeated, "This matter is not as simple as you think."

Tang Heng responded repeatedly, very perfunctorily.In fact, he has no intention of causing trouble at all now, and he is not in a hurry to settle accounts with that idiot Pan Peng.Because he had already seen Li Yuechi's dilapidated small building.The garbage dump at the door is still there, and it still stinks.Tang Heng stopped the car and climbed up the rusty iron ladder.

The umbrella hanging outside the door was gone, but there was a pair of black canvas shoes, which were tied to the railing with laces in a funny way.The black upper has been whitewashed, but it is very clean. The tongue is turned over, revealing two indistinct labels, which are pull-back cards, size 43.There has been a crack on the inside of the shoe near the sole, and it is still wearing and washing after all this?Tang Heng took a step back and leaned against the door, feeling like a pervert just now.

In fact, he couldn't tell why he came here, it seemed that he was eager to see Li Yuechi—even if he knew he was not there, he wanted to wait for him.But what should I say when I see Li Yuechi?Say thank you for thinking of me?With Li Yuechi's virtue, he might reply "Because you are Mr. Tang's nephew", and then reply respectfully, "Do you have anything else to do?"

It was past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun was slowly setting.Standing at the door on the second floor, you can see a patch of high and low bungalows all around. Some people put two poles out of the windows to hang their sweaters and underwear to dry.Yu Hui coated those clothes with a light orange-red layer. Although Wuhan is a rough place, at least the sunset is beautiful, as bright as a scene in a comic.

Has Li Yuechi seen this scene?have no idea.He is so busy every day, is he in the mood to watch the sunset?

Tang Heng was tired from standing, and leaned against the door again, Dada's "South" was playing in the earphones. Whenever Peng Tan sang "Where I fell in love for the first time", his heart was like a bell. Shake it.

Although he also remembered that Li Yuechi had a girlfriend.

Tang Heng turned sideways and put his shoulders against the door.Li Yuechi's lecture takes so long?Are you going to distribute leaflets after the lecture?In fact, you can call him and ask him, but Tang Heng doesn't want to.He turned around and put the other shoulder on the door.

A few seconds later, Tang Heng heard a "click"—it didn't come from his body.

Then, another sound.

Tang Heng straightened up, grabbed the doorknob suspiciously, and pushed hard——

The door opened.

The lock cylinder of the door lock fell at his feet, and there was a crisp clang.

Tang Heng: "..."

This time I really have to wait.

Tang Heng swore to God that he didn't want to go into the house - he blamed Li Yuechi for renting a house that was too small, even if he stood at the door, he could have a panoramic view of the furnishings in the house.A crumpled gray T-shirt was put on the end of the bed, and a rice bowl with a broken corner stood on the finishing box. Next to the rice bowl was a dark green cup—Tang Heng was stunned for two seconds before he remembered that it was the candle aromatherapy he bought.The last time he came to Li Yuechi's house, he thought the garbage dump downstairs was too smelly, so he bought this aromatherapy.

How many days?Li Yuechi didn't even light the aromatherapy.He just stands it there.Tang Heng walked in and saw a book under Xiang Xun, which was "Rural China" by Fei Xiaotong. He knew it was wrong to do so, but he opened the book by mistake.The book is from the school library, and there are many small slips of paper in it, which must be used as bookmarks.Li Yuechi is reading this book?Tang Heng seemed to see him sitting in front of two stacked sorting boxes, with his back slightly hunched, turning over page by page, inserting a note from time to time.In his hand is the cup of candle aromatherapy, which is not lit, but can still smell a very faint fragrance, which is the smell of sage.

Tang Heng's face was a little hot, he quickly put the book and aromatherapy back to their original places, turned and walked towards the door.However, the moment he turned around, he saw the white plastic bag hanging on the wall again.It was the plastic bag he and Li Yuechi picked up from the puddle that rainy night. He knew that it contained the X-rays of the Central Hospital and the X-rays of Li Yuechi's girlfriend.

Tang Heng stared at the bag blankly.The light was dim at night, so he didn't notice at that time that the basic information of the patient was written on the bag.name, gender, age—

Zhao Xuelan, female, 32 years old.